Follower of Rembrandt

Details

Follower of Rembrandt

Jacob kneeling in Prayer

pen and brown ink, watermark fleur-de-lys
138 x 119 mm.; and a drawing of a landscape after Furnerius
(2)

Provenance

(1) Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364)
(1) A. Welcker (L. 2793c)
(1) Anon. sale, Hertzberger, Amsterdam, 15 November 1962, lot 426
(1) R.W. von Wenz von Niederlahnstein
(2) B. Houthakker (L. 1272); Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17 November 1975, lot 72

Literature

(1) J. Bolten, Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, Utrecht, 1967, pp. 102 and 104, note 4, where erroneously described as a forgery

Exhibited

(2) Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, De Verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, 1964, no. 33, fig. 11

Lot Essay

(1) A copy of a lost Rembrandt drawing after which other copies are in Groninger Museum and the Louvre, O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1954, II, p. 117, C26, fig. 563. The copy in the Groninger Museum, a bequest from C. Hofstede de Groot, also comes from Reynolds' collection

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