School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

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

ca. 1698

Reed pen and brown ink, smudged with the finger, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.

4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (120 x 169 mm)

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

I, 185

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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.

Inscription:

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.

Provenance:

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Meriden, near Coventry, Warwickshire (no mark; see Lugt 58); his sale, London, Christie's, 17-18 July 1893, lot 254: "Various Sketches, in pen and ink. 5" (to Robinson for £1.5.0); possibly Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London and Edinburgh (no mark; see Lugt 1433); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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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.

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