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Joseph Interpreting the Dream of Pharaoh's Butler and Baker: Genesis 40: 5-22

School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Joseph Interpreting the Dream of Pharaoh's Butler and Baker: Genesis 40: 5-22

ca. 1698
4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (120 x 169 mm)
Reed pen and brown ink, smudged with the finger, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 185

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
A drawing by the master from the early 1650s in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (Inv. no. A 4529), seems to have been the point of departure for this sheet and others.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in brown ink, gone over with white (apparently to make the inscription less obtrusive), "Joseph explique les songes des 2 officiers de Pharaoh"; on the verso, at lower left, in graphite, "B d B / HS".
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "PC" between chan lines.
Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Robinson, John Charles, Sir, 1824-1913, 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, 185, 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. 229.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department