1976.3: Jacob's Dream; verso: The Good Samaritan

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1976.3

People

Jan Victors (1619/20 - after 1676)
Previously attributed to Ferdinand Bol, Dutch (Dordrecht 1616 - 1680 Amsterdam)

Title

Jacob's Dream; verso: The Good Samaritan

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296031

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and black chalk with white opaque watercolor restoration on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, gray and brown wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor

Dimensions

15.8 x 18.4 cm (6 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 1272 (Bernard Houthakker)
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink: L. 891 (Edward Peart)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Dr. Edward Peart, London and Butterwick (L. 891, with his mark), sold; [Christie's, London, 12 April 1822]. Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (L. 1272, verso, lower left), sold; [Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17-18 November 1975, lot 179 (as Rembrandt and Renesse)]. Hendrik S. Houthakker, Belmont, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1976.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Hendrik S. Houthakker in memory of Bernard Houthakker

Accession Year

1976

Object Number

1976.3

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Werner Sumowski, "Rembrandtzeichnungen", Pantheon (1964), vol. 22, p. 237
• The Collection of Old Master Drawings of the Late Bernard Houthakker, auct. cat., Sotheby's (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 17 1975-November 18 1975), lot 179, repr.
• Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 1, no. 123x, 162x
• William W. Robinson, "[Review] Werner Sumoski: Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vols. 1-3", Master Drawings (Autumn 1982), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 280-285, p. 284
• 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
• Holm Bevers, "Federzeichnungen bei Jan Victors: Einige Überlegungen und Neuzuschreibungen", Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis (2007), pp. 42-59, pp. 54-55, 59 (n. 44), repr. pp. 54-55, figs. 15 (verso) and 16 (recto)
• Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the British Museum, website, British Museum, 2010, under cat. no. Gelder.3
• Vadim Sadkov, Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries, ed. Charles Dumas, Foundation for Cultural Inventory (Amsterdam, 2010), p. 271, under cat. no. 427 (n. 18)
• Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers and Fondation Custodia (2010), vol. 1, pp. 106-7, under cat. no. 33
• Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 463, under cat. no. 857 (n. 2)
• Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, and Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt et son entourage, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2012), under cat. no. 44, p. 144
• The Drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, website, 2012, under Benesch 129 (n. 3) and under Benesch 167 (n. 2)

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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