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Taking of Christ
Maker
1606-1669
Formerly attributed to
1606-1669
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Width: 26.2 cm
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A loan exhibition of Rembrandt : under the high patronage of His Excellency, Eelco N. Van Kleffens, Ambassador of the Netherlands, for the benefit of the Public Education Association, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 19/01/1950-25/02/1950
Literature
p. 99
fig. 8 on p. 99
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 30
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 198 ...More
White, Christopher, Rembrandt as an Etcher. A Study of the Artist at Work, 2 vols, London 1969
p. 95
Slive, S., Drawings of Rembrandt, New York 1965
vol. I, no. 271
Rotermund, Hans-Martin, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen und Radierungen zur Bibel, Stuttgart 1963
p. 262
pl. 221
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 198
pl. XXIII
dated c. 1655-60
Sumowski, Werner, Rembrandt erzählt das Leben Jesu, Berlin 1958
p. 198, no. 73
ill.
Drost, Willi, Adam Elsheimer als Zeichner, Stuttgart 1957
p. 196
Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. V, no. 1022 and under nos 882 and 1044
fig. 1236
dated c. 1656-57
Rotermund, Hans-Martin, 'The motif of radiance in Rembrandt's biblical drawings' in 'Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes', 1952; XV
pp. 101 and 108n2
A loan exhibition of Rembrandt : under the high patronage of His Excellency, Eelco N. Van Kleffens, Ambassador of the Netherlands, for the benefit of the Public Education Association, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1950
cat. no. 38
pl. XXVI
Benesch, Otto, Rembrandt's selected drawings, London and Oxford 1947
no. 255 and p. 50 under no. 273
Benesch, O., 'Rembrandt' in Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, 1935; XXIX
p. 267
Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung, Vienna 1935
p. 62
wrongly stated to be in Stockholm
Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Berlin 1934; xxxi, vol. II
no. 455
Hell, H., 'Die späten Handzeichnungen Rembrandts' in 'Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft', 1930; LI
p. 32
ill.
Freise, K., K. Lilienfeld and H. Wichmann, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen iii, Staatliches Kupferstichkabinett und Sammlung Friedrich August II zu Dresden, 1925
no. 106
ill.
Kruse, J., Die Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule im National-Museum zu Stockholm, The Hague 1920
pp. 19-20
ill.
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
2nd series, part I, no. 47
Hind, A.M., Rembrandt's etchings, London 1911
vol. I, p. 54
Becker, W., Das Poetische in den biblischen Darstellungen Rembrandts, Leipzig 1908
p. 98
Saxl, F., 'Zu einigen Handzeichnungen Rembrandts' in 'Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft', 1908; XXXI
p. 336 under no. 13 and pp. 338-39, no. 47
Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906
no. 298 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Friederick August II de Saxe (L.971? is .5 mm wider than on Lugt and does not exactly match). Verso: lower right, stamped in pink/red: too indistinct to identify as of yet (also appears on several other drawings in the collection).
Inscription: none.
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