School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Jacob's Dream: Genesis 28:10-22
Arched top: 9 1/4 (at left margin; height to top of arch: 11 inches [280 mm.]) x 8 1/16 inches (235 x 205 mm) on sheet pieced by the artist at lower edge (15/16 inch [24 mm.])
Pen and some point of the brush (loose hatching at right) and brown ink, washed in brown and some gray-brown, opaque white in angel's wing and Jacob's left foot, on paper; pentimento in Jacob's left leg and feet; framing line in brown ink.
I, 187
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower right corner of mount, in graphite, "204 [4 in superscript/ 282 [2 in superscript]/"; inscribed on the verso, at upper left, in graphite, "24.505 [5 in superscript]; at center left (turned sideways), in graphite, "7D [D in superscript] 925 [25 in superscript]"; at center (also turned sideways), in brown ink, "43 16".
Associated names
Bol, Ferdinand, 1616?-1680?, Formerly attributed to.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Fouquet, Pieter, 1728-1800, former owner.
Valette, J., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Fouquet, Pieter, 1728-1800, former owner.
Valette, J., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 87, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 231.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 231.
Classification
Century Drawings
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