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Bodies of Saul and his sons taken down from the wall of Beth Shean (or the Execution of three Anabaptist martyrs in Amsterdam, 1559?)
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1606-1669
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Width: 27.4 cm
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Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 02/07/1983-25/09/1983
Literature
under no. 103
Dickey, S.S., ‘Mennonite Martyrdom in Amsterdam in the Art of Rembrandt and his Contemporaries’, in 'Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries', Lanham, Maryland 1996 - pp. 81-103
no. 13 and pp. 96-97
fig. 7
Dickey, S.S., ‘Doop door water en het zwaard. Doopsgezind martelaarschap in de kunst van Rembrandt en zijn tijdgenoten’, in 'Doopsgezinde bijdragen', 1995 - pp. 39-62; nieuwe reeks 21
pp. 58, 60 nn. 52 and 53
identified scene as inconsistent with Saul and bodies taken down from wall, rather of the Anabaptist martyrs ...More
Sumowski, Werner, trans. by Walter L. Strauss, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 10 vols., New York 1979-1992
vol. III (1980), under no. 809xx
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 12
ill.
identified the scene as that in 2 Samuel 31: 7-13, the bodies taken down from the wall
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 187
Haverkamp Begemann, E., Review of Benesch, Part 2 in 'Kunstchronik', Feb. 1961; XIV, 2
pp. 50-51
first connected this with Saul's story, though a later episode than the bodies taken down from the wall
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 187
pl. XII
titled 'Several scenes of execution' dated c. 1640
Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. III, no. 485a and under no. 518a
fig. 608
dated 1640-41
Isarlo, George, 'Du nouveau sur Rembrandts' in 'Arts', 25 Jul. 1947; no. 125
p.?
ill. front p.
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, The drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, rembrandtcatalogue.net ongoing
Benesch 0485a (posted 17 June 2020) and under 0477, 0478, 0479, 0482, 0485
agreed with Dickey 1995 on identification of scene as Anabaptist martyrs; confirmed attribution to Rembrandt; dated c. 1642-45 ...Less
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