1.2018.66: The Blind Tobit Admonishing Anna
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.2018.66
- People
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Justus de Gelder, Dutch (Dordrecht 1650 - after 1707 Vianen (or Amsterdam?))
Previously attributed to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Nicolaes Maes, Dutch (Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam)
- Title
- The Blind Tobit Admonishing Anna
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Tobit and Anna
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/184045
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 20.1 x 30.8 cm (7 15/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: FB--
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 1669 / as -- ns
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: P. de Koning / G. w1
- collector's mark: verso, lower right, purple ink stamp: WPK (Lugt 2643, William Pitcairn Knowles)
- watermark: Foolscap with five-pointed star
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Rudolf Weigel, Leipzig. J.A.G. Weigel, Leipzig. [Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 15, 1883, lot 538]. W. Pitcairn Knowles, sold, [through his sale, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, June 25, 1895, lot 375]. [Elsner von Gronow'sches Kupferstichkabinet]. [C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.66
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), pp. 35, 96-97, cat. no. 29, repr. p. 97
Exhibition History
- Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/02/1989 - 01/28/1990
- Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012
- 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/12/2022 - 01/09/2023
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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