Identification and Creation Object Number 1997.207 People School

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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1997.207
People
School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch
(Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
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Title
Christ at the Well of Sychar
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache on cream
antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
17.1 x 24.6 cm (6 3/4 x 9 11/16 in.), irregular
mount: 18.9 x 26.6 cm (7 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
watermark: in drawing: foolscap
inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Rembrandt [?]
gallery label: former paper backing, ink on paper,
printed, French: Three pieces of paper, apparently cut
from the sale catalogue. 1) Vente a Amsterdam/ les 1215 Décembre 1922/ Direction/ Frederik Muller & Cie./
(Ant. W. M. Mensing)/ Doelenstraat 16-18. 2) Dessins de
Rembrandt/ Provenant de la collection Mr. F. J. M. A.
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Reekers,/ Amsterdam; d'un amateur Russe, etc. 3)
1902 Le Repas des Pauvres./ A l'avant-plan à droite, on
voit un bassin et à gauche, deux figures/ debout. Au
centre de l'avant-plan, un groupe de personnes
accroupies/ et assises, qui attendent des tranches de
pain qu'un d'eux est occupé/ à couper. Au-dessus de
ce groupe apparait vers la droite, le Christ dans/ une
grande auréole. Presque le quart du dessin à gauche
en haut, est/ occupé par une assemblée d'environ
quinze personnes qui se trouvent/ devant la colonnade
d'un palais et regardent la scène./ Dessin à sépia et un
peu rehaussé de blanc. - Haut. 17.3, larg. 24 cent.
gallery label: former paper backing, ink on paper,
printed, German: Kunsthandlung/ Rath A.-G./ Basel/
Aeschenvorstadt 37. In center of label a cursive R
surrounded by three black shields and a circle.
label: former paper backing, ink on paper, printed,
German: Circular label: Dr. Tobias Christ. Basel/
Advokat und Notar.
exhibition label: former paper backing, ink on paper,
printed and handwritten, Dutch & English: Printing in
Dutch, handwriting in English. Tentoonstelling van
Nederlandsche Kunst/ 1400-1900 Londen 1929/
drawing/ Kunstenaar: Rembrandt/ Onderwerp: Christ
and the poor/ Eigenaar: Dr. Tobias Christ/ Adres:
Langrgasse 30, Basel/ Kist no. 92 T. C. 101.
Provenance
[Kunsthandlung Rath A.-G., Basel]. [Frederik Muller &
Co., Amsterdam, 12-15 December 1922, lot 1902].
Tobias Christ, Basel, 1925, to his heirs, 1951. Private
Collector, Basel, sold;[Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1981,
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lot 25H], sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limited,
Brampton, Ontario, 1981], long-term loan to; Fogg Art
Museum, 1981, sold; to Harvard University Art
Museums, 1997.
NOTE: M. Rotermund remarked in 1951 ("Christus am
Brunnen bei Sichar," p. 9) that the drawing was then in
the possession of Dr. Christ's heirs in Basel. Note from
Sotheby's to the subsequent owner (in file) identifies
the drawing as bought in "the Christ sale."
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase
through the generosity of an anonymous donor in honor
of Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.207
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen
Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche VerlagsAnstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1,
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p. 423, fig. 405
William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt; des Meisters
Handzeichnungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
(Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. I, repr. p. 440, fig. 423
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, "Einige Betrachtungen
über die Ausstellung Holländischer Kunst in London",
Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft (1929), vol. L, no. 3,
p. 141
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch
Art, exh. cat., Oxford University Press (UK) (London,
England, 1930), p. 209, no. 620
Hans-Martin Rotermund, "Christus am Brunnen bei
Sichar", Oud Holland (1951), vol. LXVI, no. 1, pp. 9-15,
fig. 1
Hans-Martin Rotermund, "The Motif of Radiance in
Rembrandt's Biblical Drawings", Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (London, England,
1952), vol. XV, nos. 3-4, pp. 110-11, pl. 22d
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, Phaidon
Press (Oxford, 1954 - 1957), vol. VI, no. A71, fig. 1679
Hans-Martin Rotermund, "Unidentifizierte bzw.
missverstandene Zeichnungen Rembrandts zu
biblischen Szenen", Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch
(Cologne, 1959), 21, pp. 198-99, pl. 117
Jakob Rosenberg, Review of Otto Benesch, "The
Drawings of Rembrandt", vols. III-VI, The Art Bulletin
(1959), vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 108-19, pp. 117-18
Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs
Corpus der Rembrandt-Zeichnungen II (Bad Pyrmont,
1961), p. 26
Hans-Martin Rotermund, Rembrandts
Handzeichnungen und Radierungen zur Bibel, Ernst
Kaufmann Lahr (Stuttgart, Germany, 1963), pp. 187,
315, repr. p. 255, fig. 209
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Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Review of H. M.
Rotermund, "Rembrandts Handzeichnungen und
Radierungen zur Bibel, Master Drawings (1966), vol. IV,
no. 1, p. 50
Hans-Martin Rotermund, Rembrandt's Drawings and
Etchings for the Bible, Pilgrim Press (Philadelphia, PA,
1969), pp. 187, 315, repr. p. 255, fig. 209
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged
ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), vol. VI, no. A71, fig.
1733
Exhibition History
Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des 15 bis 18
Jahrhunderts, aus Basler Privatbesitz , Kunstverein
Basel, Basel, 04/15/1928 - 05/28/1928
Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy of
Arts, London, 01/01/1929 - 03/31/1929
Rembrandt, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 04/18/1937 05/30/1937
Rembrandt, Hokusai, van Gogh, Kunstmuseum Basel,
Basel, 01/01/1952 - 02/29/1952
Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum
Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam , Arthur M. Sackler
Museum, Cambridge, 12/02/1989 - 01/28/1990
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