Attributed to Ferdinand Bol
1616?-1680?
Joseph Sold by his Brethren to the Ishmaelites: Genesis 37:17-28
ca. 1632/33
6 13/16 x 10 1/2 inches (173 x 267 mm)
Reed and quill pen and brown ink and wash, some corrections in opaque white in small figures at far left, on paper.
I, 174
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: arms of Basel within a shield, surmounted by a crown, with letters "F[?]H" above "M", visible through lining with fiber optic light (impossible to trace, but similar to Heawood, no. 1203: 1634).
Associated names
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den, 1621-1674, Formerly attributed to.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, School of, Formerly attributed to.
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, 174, repr. (as Rembrandt).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 35.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 35.
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