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Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch

1652
Etching and drypoint on paper.
sheet: 129 x 213 mm; plate mark: 125 x 214 mm
RvR 100
NHD number
NHD 267, I
Notes
Luke 2:42-51.
Before the marks at the top of the plate.
Cf. the drawing is in the Louvre, Paris (Benesch 885; White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f.1652".
Watermark: Lamb with penant inside crowned shield, letters "ID" above lamb.
Provenance

John Heywood Hawkins (1803-1877), London and Bignor Park; Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London and Dalkeith; Theodore Irwin, Oswego (1827-1902), New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner.
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School