1984.835: The Good Samaritan

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1984.835

People

School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

The Good Samaritan

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294990

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper

Dimensions

irregular: 17.4 x 24.3 cm (6 7/8 x 9 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, right center, graphite: The Good / Samaritan / Rembrandt
• watermark: Eagle with Basel crozier [compare Ash and Fletcher 1998, pp. 91-92, section B, and Hinterding 2006, pp. 106-107, section B]
• inscription: verso, center, graphite: L. 1460d [associated with the Earl of Dalhousie]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Maida and George S. Abrams

Accession Year

1984

Object Number

1984.835

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), Addendum no. A20, p. 177, repr.
• The Drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, website, 2012, under Benesch 144A (n. 2)

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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