A two-humped camel
by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn, Brown ink, 194 x 289 mm
Catalogue number: Benesch 453.
Only a few drawings of animals by Rembrandt survived. One of them is the present sketch depicting a two-humped Bactrian camel. It is the only animal he labeled by name, the inscription reads: Drommedaris. Rembrandt fecit 1633. The name is wrong, the word dromedary is reserved for the single-humped variety.
This drawing is missing since the Second World War.