1910.7: The Interior of Saint Joseph's House at Nazareth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1910.7

People

Copy after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

The Interior of Saint Joseph's House at Nazareth

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298879

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and later [?] blue opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on heavy paper or card

Dimensions

19.8 x 22.9 cm (7 13/16 x 9 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: lower left, gold ink, pen: L. 1433 [but is J.C.R] (John Charles Robinson)
• inscription: mount, verso, upper center, black ink: Rembrandt. [double underline] / Joseph in the Carpenter Shop / & the Holy Family / From the Collections of Lord Warwick & / Sir Thomas Lawrence.
• inscription: mount, verso, right center, graphite: 938 [38 is underlined]
• inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: Rembrandt
• label: mount, verso, lower center, typeface: [cut out from Robinson's (?) sale catalogue] REMBRANDT. / The Holy Family--pen and ink and bistre wash / From Sir Thomas Lawrence's and the Warwick Collection.
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: a... [illegible] / e [? or I? ... illegible]
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Lawrence, London (L. 2445, without his mark). Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle, Stratford (L. 2600, without his mark). Sir John Charles Robinson, London (L. 1433, with his mark), sold; [Christie's London, 1902. Sale, 12-14 May 1902, lot 354]. Charles Newton Robinson, London. [H. Wunderlich and Co., New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1910.

NOTE: Lot 354 was described as "Holy Family: Interior, with Joseph at a carpenter's bench -- pen and sepia wash drawing."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund

Accession Year

1910

Object Number

1910.7

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Mayger Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Vol I: Drawings by Rembrandt and His School, British Museum (London, England, 1915), under no. 61
• William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, repr. p. 349, fig. 325b
• William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt; des Meisters Handzeichnungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. 1, p. 349, fig. 325b
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 531, p. 279 as copy after Rembrandt
• Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), vol. 3, under no. 516
• Martin Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, British Museum Press (London, 1992), under cat. no. 43, p. 111, n. 3
• Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the British Museum, website, British Museum, 2010, under cat. no. 39

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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