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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.18
People
School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Supper at Emmaus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1630-1633
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295715

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
10 x 11 cm (3 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: LB or LR? [the LB countermark is similar to those often associated with five-pointed foolscap, Haewood 1924, Dutch 1645]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: x/3 [?]
  • gallery label: former label, black typeface and black ink: REMBRANDT AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS / THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO / October 25 - December 7, 1969 / THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS / December 22, 1969 - February 1, 1970 / DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS / February 24 - April 5, 1970 / Cat. no. 99 Box no. 9

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Wilhelm Bode, Berlin. [Lucien Goldschmidt, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.18
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), vol. 1, cat. no. 11
  • Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June 1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, p. 454, repr. p. 457, fig. 8
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 14
  • Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Netherlands-American Amity Trust and Eerdmans (Washington, D.C. and Grand Rapids, MI, 1986), p. 42
  • Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the British Museum, website, British Museum, 2010, under cat. no. Flinck.10
  • Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, and George S. Keyes, Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Publications Department (Philadelphia, 2011), cat. no. 7, pp. 4, 112, and 234, repr. p. 7, pl. 1.4
  • Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, and George S. Keyes, Rembrandt et la figure du Christ, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre and Officina Libraria (Paris and Milan, 2011), cat. no. 7, pp. 4, 113, 236, repr. p. 7, fig. 1.4 (as school of Rembrandt)
  • The Drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, website, 2012, Benesch 11

Exhibition History

  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
  • Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
  • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 04/21/2011 - 07/18/2011; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 08/03/2011 - 10/30/2011; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/20/2011 - 02/12/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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