REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Lioness devouring a bird

c. 1638
Charcoal with gray wash, on paper prepared with brown wash, 126 x 239 mm
British Museum, London

Catalogue number: Benesch 775.

A group of drawings of lions from the late 1630s were made by charcoal instead of black chalk.




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