1970.64: The Healing of Tobit (Tobias Healing Tobit)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1970.64

People

Philips Koninck, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1619 - 1688 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

The Healing of Tobit (Tobias Healing Tobit)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1641-1645

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296027

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown and gray wash, white opaque watercolor and touches of red and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite

Dimensions

19.3 × 23.7 cm (7 5/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: none
• inscription: former mount, brown ink: Rembrand
• inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk (?): 63

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 16 May 1905, lot 1303 (as Rembrandt)], sold; to Ziegert.
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

NOTE: Gutekunst sale information from William R. Valentiner in "Rembrandt; des Meisters Handzeichnungen".

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund

Accession Year

1970

Object Number

1970.64

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, repr. p. 268, fig. 249
• William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt; des Meisters Handzeichnungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, repr. p. 268, fig. 249
• Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 6, cat. no. 1522axx
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 13
• William W. Robinson and Konrad Oberhuber, "Rembrandt's Sketches of Historical Subjects", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), p. 252, repr. fig. 17
• Martin Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, British Museum Press (London, 1992), under cat. no. 91, p. 189, n. 3

Exhibition History

• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
• 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/12/2022 - 01/09/2023

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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