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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
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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 Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 13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

Verification Level

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