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Christ and the two disciples arriving at Emmaus

Maker

Workshop of
(artist)
1606-1669

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1606-1669

Title

Christ and the two disciples arriving at Emmaus

Date of Production

(circa) 1648 - 1652

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, touches of white bodycolour, touches of graphite (in seated man's sleeve - added later?) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount with gold and brown ink borders

Dimensions

Height: 23.2 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.194

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Arthur Pond, London (c.1705-1758), variant of L.2038; John Barnard, London (1709-1784), L.1419 and L.1420; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; Dr Josef Winter, Vienna (1857-1916); Frederik Muller & Cie (Amsterdam), 1908 (? Seilern queried this in his catalogue, unclear where the information originated and why he questioned it); on consignment with Schaeffer Galleries (New York) by November 1954; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 19 February 1957 ($8,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 02/07/1983-25/09/1983

Literature

Keyes, George S., 'Perception et croyance: l'image du Christ et le tournant méditatif de l'art religieux de Rembrandt' in 'Rembrandt et la figure du Christ', Louvre 2011
p. 11
fig. 1.4 on p. 11
as 'School of Rembrandt'

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 22

Baudiquey, P., Rembrandt et la Bible: texte intégral de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, France 1979
pp. 1290, 1423, no. 68 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 194
pl. XIX
dated c. 1650

Sumowski, Werner, Rembrandt erzählt das Leben Jesu, Berlin 1958
p. 201, no. 97
ill.

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. III, no. 585
fig. 717

Regteren Altena, J.Q. van, 'Rembrandt's way to Emmaus' in 'Kunstmuseets Årsschrift', Copenhagen 1948-49; XXXV-XXXVI
p. 6 and note 18
ill.

Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Berlin 1934; xxxi, vol. II
no. 519

Tietze, Hans (ed.), Österreichische Kunsttopographie, Die Denkmale der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1908; XI-XXI Bezirk
p. 356
ill. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto: upper centre: foolscap with five points (unable to see anything below due to mount). Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre edge, fragment: unclear.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper left (hidden under drawing, visible via transmitted light): “21” [? Or could be on the verso of the drawing]; lower left corner, brown ink, trimmed away so only first line visible: “x / […]”; beside that, graphite: “P.82”; lower centre edge, brown ink: “Rembrandt.”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper right, brown ink, Barnard’s hand (L.1420): “J:B. No: 249 / 9 by 8 ½”; lower left, graphite: “Co. fl RPB.- / va” [not on Lugt]; lower left, brown ink, probably Esdaile’s hand: “Out of the coll;ns of John Barnard / Snr. Jos. Reynolds.” and below that, Esdaile again (L.2617): “WE P84_1798.”; lower centre edge, brown ink, Arthur Pond’s hand? (variant of L.2038?): “Pond. / Rembrandt.”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, also partially on the mount, stamped in black: Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364). Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, written in brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617); lower right corner, written in brown ink: John Barnard (just his initials, as in first parts of L.1419 and L.1420). Mount (historic), Verso: upper right, written in brown ink: John Barnard (L.1420), transcribed above; lower left, written in brown ink: William Esdaile (L.2617), transcribed above; lower centre edge, written in brown ink: Arthur Pond (variant of L.2038?).

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