by-nc
IIIF logo Open IIIF manifest What is IIIF IIIF viewers

Joseph and Potiphar's wife

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Joseph and Potiphar's wife

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

black chalk, black ink, grey wash, white bodycolour, on grey-brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 40 cm
Width: 30.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2960

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Related Works

Expulsion from Paradise Abraham entertaining the angels Sacrifice of Isaac Rebecca offering a drink to Eliezer at the well Esau selling his birthright to Jacob Finding of Moses Moses striking the rock to give to drink to the children of Israel Worship of the Golden Calf Samson carrying the Gates of Gaza Samson pulling down the Temple Esther before Ahasuerus Elijah and the ravens Trials of Job Three men in the furnace Belshazzar's feast Healing of Tobias' father

Provenance

possibly a private collection in Freiburg im Breisgau; Gutekunst & Klipstein (Bern), November 1938, no. 20; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Vermeer and the Delft School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, London, 05/03/2001-27/05/2001

Leonaerdt Bramer 1592-1679, Delft & Netherlands, 10/09/1994-13/11/1994

Literature

Vermeer and the Delft School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, London, 2001
no. 103
fig. 103 on p. 452

Plomp, Michiel C., 'Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674) als ontwerper van decoratie op Delfts aardewerk' in 'Oud Holland Jaargang', 1999 - pp. 197-216; 113, 4
p. 204
fig. 12 on p. 204

Michiel Plomp, Jane Ten Brink Goldsmith, Paul Huys Janssen, Michiel Kersten, John Michael Montias, and Adrienne Quarles von Ufford, Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1994
no. 2 and p. 312 under no. 1
fig. 2 on p. 213 ...More

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 20 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "15" or "18". Verso: centre, red chalk, large: "18". Support (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower centre, graphite: “Josefs Kenschheit I Mose 39.”; lower left, graphite, circled, Gutekunst number: “20”.

Collector's mark: none.

Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.

____________________________

Buy a print from our collection