Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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1606-1669

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

ca. 1655

Reed pen and quill pen in brown-black ink and wash.

6 13/16 x 9 3/16 inches (173 x 234 mm)

Thaw Collection.

2017.217

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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).

Provenance:

Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Rodolphe Kann, Paris; Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, New York; Louis H. Silver, Chicago; Norton Simon Foundation, Fullerton California; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.

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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.

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