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Lot Essay
Although Benesch accepted it as autograph and placed it among the artist's mature works, later authorities have doubted the attribution of the present drawing to Rembrandt. The same hand can be discerned in a drawing with later wash of A road with trees, ditches and houses in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, which Peter Schatborn associates with an unknown Rembrandt pupil, P. Schatborn, op. cit., no. 116. Martin Royalton-Kisch has pointed out that a drawing showing the same dotted shorthand in the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, was originally the right-hand half of the same sheet, P. Schatborn, op. cit., p. 232, note 1. While Schatborn notes that the paper of these sheets places them in the later 17th Century, Jeroen Giltaij suggests that they are later imitations, J. Giltaij, op. cit., under no. 190. Martin Royalton-Kisch disagrees with this view in his review of Giltaij's catalogue, noting that the group derives from late Rembrandt sketches such as a drawing in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Benesch 1368), M. Royalton-Kisch, op. cit., p. 135.
The Pesthuis was on the south-west outskirts of Amsterdam, on the way to the village of Den Overtoom. The tower of the Westerkerk, where Rembrandt was buried, can be seen on the left.
The Pesthuis was on the south-west outskirts of Amsterdam, on the way to the village of Den Overtoom. The tower of the Westerkerk, where Rembrandt was buried, can be seen on the left.