The Entombment, over a Sketch of an Executioner, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1640 - c. 1641

Identification

Title(s)

The Entombment, over a Sketch of an Executioner

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1930-28(R)

Catalogue reference

Schatborn 19

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1640 - c. 1641

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink; paper correction at lower left; framing line in brown ink

Material

paper
ink

Technique

pen

Measurements

height 156 mm × width 201 mm

Subject

What

Christ's entombment (possibly by angels)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague

Acquisition

gift 1906

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; sale, Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869, Rotterdam), Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme), 23 (28) October 1871 sqq., no. 500 (‘Mise au tombeau. A la plume’), fl. 11, to the dealer S. Lamme, Rotterdam, for Dr August Sträter (1810-97), Aachen (L. 787);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 10 (14) May 1898 sqq., no. 1176 (‘Die Grablegung Christi. Geniale Sepiaskizze. Auf der Rückzeite eine Studie zur Enthaubtung Johannis des Taüfers’), 80 DM, to Paul Mathey (1844-1929), Paris;{Copy RKD.} ...; purchased from the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, after 1900;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Rembrandt et la figure du Christ, Lloyd DeWitt, Blaise Ducos, George Shepard Keyes, Seymour Slive, p. 110, afb. 4.2
Rembrandt and the face of Jesus, Lloyd DeWitt, Seymour Slive, p. 110, afb. 4.2
Tekeningen van Rembrandt : zijn onbekende leerlingen en navolgers, Peter Schatborn, p. 42, cat.nr. 19
Verzameling Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, cat.nr. 27
Tentoonstelling van een zeven-tal schilderijen, afkomstig uit de verzameling Steengracht en twee-en-negentig teekeningen door Rembrandt, waaronder vijf-en-zestig door Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot aan den staat geschonken, cat.nr. 32
Exposition d'oeuvres de Rembrandt : dessins & gravures, Mai-Juin 1908 : catalogue, cat.nr. 361
Tentoonstelling van teekeningen van het Koninklijk Genootschap van Nederlandsche Aquarellisten te 's Gravenhage [1882], cat.nr. 27

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