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Tobias Receiving his Father's Blessing: "Apocrypha", Book of Tobias, Chap. 5

School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Tobias Receiving his Father's Blessing: "Apocrypha", Book of Tobias, Chap. 5

5 9/16 x 10 7/16 inches (142 x 266 mm), arched top
Pen and brown ink, heavy brown wash throughout, a few corrections in opaque white, such as in the contour of the angel's face, on paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.
I, 193

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining with fiber optic light.
The drawing is a close copy by an unidentified Rembrandt pupil after another school drawing in the Fodor collection, Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Inv. no. A 10284). Another, less accurate copy is in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin (Inv. no. 16439).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in brown ink, "a/"; on the verso of the old mount: at upper center, in graphite, "6f / 6.16.6"; at center, possibly in Reveley's hand, in brown ink, "Out of Lord Sommer's, Mr. Hudson's & Sr ["r" in superscript]. Josh. Reynold's Collectn ["n" in superscript]."; below this, in Robinson's hand (and continuing the sequence of inscriptions in brown ink), in graphite, "& Reveley / I had it from Reveley / JCR"; and further below, "no finer Rembrandt / drawing / exists / JCR"; above the ink inscription, also in Robinson's hand, in graphite, "date, I think about 1650; and signed at lower left, in black ink, JC Robinson".
Associated names
Somers, John Somers, Baron, 1651-1716, former owner.
Hudson, Thomas, 1701-1779, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Reveley, Henry, 1737-1798, 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, 193, 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. 233.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department