School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

Jacob's Dream: Genesis 28:10-22

Pen and some point of the brush (loose hatching at right) and brown ink, washed in brown and some gray-brown, opaque white in angel's wing and Jacob's left foot, on paper; pentimento in Jacob's left leg and feet; framing line in brown ink.

Arched top: 9 1/4 (at left margin; height to top of arch: 11 inches [280 mm.]) x 8 1/16 inches (235 x 205 mm) on sheet pieced by the artist at lower edge (15/16 inch [24 mm.])

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

I, 187

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Numbered at lower right corner of mount, in graphite, "204 [4 in superscript/ 282 [2 in superscript]/"; inscribed on the verso, at upper left, in graphite, "24.505 [5 in superscript]; at center left (turned sideways), in graphite, "7D [D in superscript] 925 [25 in superscript]"; at center (also turned sideways), in brown ink, "43 16".

Provenance:

Possibly Hendrik Busserus (1701-81), Amsterdam; possibly his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley...Maarszen, 21ff. October 1782, lot 1204; possibly Pieter Fouquet (1728-1800), Amsterdam; possibly his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley...Pruyssenaar, 13 April 1801, Album G, lot 21 (to "Valet" for 16.20 fl.); possibly J. Valette; possibly his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley...de Vries, 26 October 1807, Album M, lot 1; 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.

Associated names:

Bol, Ferdinand, 1616?-1680?, Formerly attributed to.
Busserus, Hendrik, 1701-1781, former owner.
Fouquet, Pieter, 1728-1800, former owner.
Valette, J., 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, 87, 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. 231.

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