Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

ca. 1655
6 13/16 x 9 3/16 inches (173 x 234 mm)
Reed pen and quill pen in brown-black ink and wash.
2017.217

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in upper right, in graphite, "12" on verso, at lower left, in graphite, "18", and at lower center, "313".
Watermark: Basilisk or Dragon threatening a church or house. Probably Swiss (Heusler).
Associated names
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Kann, Rodolphe, -1905, former owner.
Rice, A. Hamilton, former owner.
Silver, Louis H., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 330, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 7.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 243.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department