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Scene from the Old Testament (?)

Maker

Workshop of
(artist)
1606-1669

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1606-1669

Title

Date of Production

1650-1659

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with graphite framing lines on three sides, the upper right corner made up; paper is foxed

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 14.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.195

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

Paul Mathey (1844-1929); Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881-1941); by descent to his heirs; their sale, Sotheby's (London), 20 November 1957, lot 71 (as 'The madness of Saul'); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school. Online research catalogue. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/rembrandt_drawings/drawings_by_rembrandt.aspx, 2010
under no. 106

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 23

The Bible through Dutch eyes, Milwaukee Art Center, 1976
p. 98 under no. 44
entry author: A. Bader, suggesting subject is the Ghost of Samuel ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 195

Slive, S., Drawings of Rembrandt, New York 1965
vol. II, no. 369

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 195
pl. XX
dated c. 1650

Drost, Willi, Adam Elsheimer als Zeichner, Stuttgart 1957
p. 186
fig. 167 (detail)

Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1957, Important old master drawings; fine old master paintings
lot 71
ill.

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. III, no. 650
fig. 783

Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung, Vienna 1935
p. 50

Valentiner, W.R, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig 1925; xxxi, vol. I
no. 393

Lippmann, F., with the assistance of W. Bode, S. Colvin, F.S. Haden and J.P. Heseltine, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn reproduced in Phototype, four series, London, Paris and The Hague 1888-1911
series III, part I, no. 36

Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906
no. 799 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a foolscap with five points above three stacked Medici balls, 2.4 cm between chain lines.

Inscription: Verso: lower left edge, graphite, now hidden under handling edges so illegible: probably "Rembrandt [...]". Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in 1983 catalogue): “A 53” and “la fureur de Saul” [hand of Paul Mathey?].

Collector's mark: none.

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