''Landscape with a Castle'' is an oil-on-panel painting by Rembrandt, now in the

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in Paris. Art historians have variously dated it to 1652 (Rein van Eysinga), 1654 (Frederik Schmidt-Degener), early 1640 (

Abraham Bredius Dr. Abraham Bredius (18 April 1855 in Amsterdam – 13 March 1946 in Monaco) was a Dutch art collector, art historian, and museum curator. Life Bredius travelled widely, visiting various art collections in his youth, and worked at the Dutch Mus ...

and Horst Gerson), 1648 (Kurt Bauch), 1640-1642 (Jacques Foucart), c.1640 (Christian Tümpel) and 1643–1646 (Leonard J. Slatkes). It is first recorded in the 1692 inventory of Geertruyt Brasser in Delft as "a castle by Rembrandt" (Brasser was the widow of Johan van der Chys). It was later recorded in the collection of

Jan Pieter van Suchtelen Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, Count of Liikkala, ''Pyotr Kornilovich Suhtelen'' (2 August 1751, Grave – 6 January 1836, Stockholm), was born in the Netherlands, and was a general in the Russian army during the Russo-Swedish War (1808–1809). ...

, a Russian general from the Netherlands. In 1859 van Suchtelen's heirs sold it to

Pavel Stroganov Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov (russian: Граф Павел Александрович Строганов; born June 7 (18), 1774, in Paris; died June 10 (22), 1817) was a Russian military commander and statesman, Lieutenant General, Adjutan ...

St-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. On his death in 1911 Stroganov left it and the rest of his art collection to Vladimir and Aleksandra Shcherbatov, the children of his brother's daughter. Vladimir and Aleksandra were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1920, three years after their artworks had been seized by the state. By 1925 at the latest the work had been moved to the

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the largest ...

, but in 1932 it was secretly sold off by the USSR, probably via the art dealer Wildenstein and Company. In 1933 it was probably sold to the Parisian collector Étienne Nicolas, in whose collection it definitively appeared in 1935. In 1942 Nicolas sold it and ''Portrait of Titus van Rijn'' to

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via the Berlin-based art dealer Karl Haberstock for 60 million francs – Hitler intended it for his

Führermuseum The ''Führermuseum'' or ''Fuhrer-Museum'' (English: Leader's Museum), also referred to as the Linz art gallery, was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz, near ...

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. After the war's end it was returned to Nicolas via the Central Collecting Point and in 1948 he donated it to the Louvre.

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*http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not&idNotice=25564 {{Rembrandt category:1640s paintings category:1650s paintings category:Landscape paintings category:Paintings by Rembrandt Paintings in the Louvre by Dutch artists

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