Beheading of John the Baptist, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1640 - c. 1641

...; 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

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