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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1981.97
People
Justus de Gelder, Dutch (Dordrecht 1650 - after 1707 Vianen (or Amsterdam?))
Previously attributed to Nicolaes Maes, Dutch (Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam)
Title
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295082

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with (later?) gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.7 x 19.1 cm (7 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 24.3 x 23.5 cm (9 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Rembrant:
  • blind stamp: lower right: L. 1391 (Heinrich Wilhelm Campe)
  • collector's mark: verso of mount, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 2811b (C. R. Rudolf)
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, red chalk: a. 1434
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, graphite: Original
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, graphite: Rembran [cut off]
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, graphite: A5894
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, grpahite: 2825
  • inscription: mount, upper left, graphite: 241.
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 63
  • watermark: none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (L. 1391, with his mark). [C. G. Boerner (Leipzig), 9 May 1930, lot 244 (as Rembrandt school)], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London], sold; to Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, with his mark), 1934. Private collector, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in appreciation of Seymour Slive's service as Director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1974-1982
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
1981.97
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), cat. no. 1945x
  • William W. Robinson, "Nicolaes Maes as a Draughtsman", Master Drawings (Summer 1989), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 146-162, p. 155, fig. 28
  • 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. A12, p. 173, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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