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CIRCLE OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
The prophet Elijah and the angel in the desert
pen and brown ink, heightened with white, watermark foolscap
7 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (19.4 x 18.5 cm)
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694-1771), London (L. 2170).
Jan van Rijmdsijk (active 1730-1788/1789), London (L. 2167, his mark, barely visible, at lower center).
Walter Gay (1856-1937), Paris.
Henry Oppenheimer (1859-1932), London; Christie’s, London, 13 July 1936, lot 294.
Literature
F. Lippmann, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. Reproduced in Phototype, II, Berlin, London and Paris, 1890, no. 58 (as by Rembrandt).
C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906, no. 782 (as by Rembrandt).
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen, I, Stuttgart, 1925, no. 186, ill. (as by Rembrandt).
O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, V, London, 1957, p. 265-266, under no. 907, ill.
S. Slive, Drawings of Rembrandt. With a Selection of Drawings by his Pupils and Followers, New York, 1965, II, under no. 391.
O. Benesch, with E. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, V, pp. 253-254, under no. 907, ill.
M van Berge-Gerbaud, Rembrandt et son école. Dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt, exhib cat., Paris, Insttut Néerlandais, and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1997-1998, p. 36, under no. 13.
P. Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle. Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Bussum and Paris, 2010, I, p. 61, under no. 14, II, p. 216, fig. 8.
Exhibited
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Exposition d’œuvres de Rembrandt. Dessins et gravures, Paris, 1908, no. 331 (catalogue by F. Courboin, J. Guibert, and P.-A. Lemoisne; as by Rembrandt).