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Trials of Job

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Trials of Job

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 39.8 cm
Width: 31.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2973

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 Joseph and Potiphar's wife 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 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. 49; 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

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Literature

Wagini, Susanne, "Geestig van vinding en Konstig gedagt: Ein 'Hiob im Elend' von Leonaert Bramer", in Linien – Musik des Sichtbaren. Festschrift für Michael Semff,, Kurt Zeitler (ed.) with the assistance of Susanne Wagini, Andreas Strobl and Achim Riether, Berlin and Munich, 2015
pp. 230-31
fig. 4, p. 230

Bettler Diebe Unterwelt. Leonaert Bramer illustriert spanische Romane, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich Munich 2013
pp. 36-37
fig. 32 on p. 36

Vermeer and the Delft School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, London, 2001
no. 104
fig. 104 on p. 453 ...More

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. 4 and p. 312 under no. 1
fig. 4

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 20

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 49 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "49". Verso: centre, red chalk, large: "47". Support (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Hiob vom Satan mit bösen Schwären geschlagen. Hiob 2,7.”; lower left, graphite, circled, Gutekunst number: “49”.

Collector's mark: none.

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