1932.365: The Angel Gabriel Appearing to Zachariah

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.365

People

Copy after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

The Angel Gabriel Appearing to Zachariah

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298523

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper; with later additions of gray wash and black chalk, and some scratchwork at the contour of wing at the upper left and the right column base at lower left

Dimensions

20.3 × 19.5 cm (8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, lower right, brown ink: L. 2234 (Robert Prileau Roupell)
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: -3-
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Robert Prioleau Roupell, London (L. 2234, with his mark), sold; [Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 12-14 July 1887, lot 1056]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.365

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. F. Bohn (Haarlem, 1906), no. 1066
• Arthur Mayger Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Vol I: Drawings by Rembrandt and His School, British Museum (London, England, 1915), no. 82, p. 35, repr. pl. 9
• Corrado Ricci, Rembrandt in Italia, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1918), p. 58, repr. p. 67
• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes. Marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques. . . ., Vereenigde Drukkerijen (Amsterdam, 1921), p. 283
• William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, repr. p. 296, fig. 270
• William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt; des Meisters Handzeichnungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, repr. p. 296, fig. 270
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 528, p. 278 as Rembrandt (?)
• Hans-Martin Rotermund, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen und Radierungen zur Bibel, Ernst Kaufmann Lahr (Stuttgart, Germany, 1963), pp. 173, 313, repr. p. 189, fig. 138
• Hans-Martin Rotermund, Rembrandt's Drawings and Etchings for the Bible, Pilgrim Press (Philadelphia, PA, 1969), pp. 173, 313, repr. p. 189, fig. 138
• Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June 1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, pp. 457-58, repr. p. 459, fig. 12
• 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
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")

Exhibition History

• Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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