God the Father Supported by Angels
1655/1660
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.1 x 13.3 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.666
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Catalogue Raisonné
Benesch 1973, no. 1004
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Defer-Dumesnil (L.739)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954.
1965
Works of Faith, Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 1965.
1966
Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 37, 41, repro.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2017
Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels, The Frick Collection, New York, 2017.
Bibliography
1925
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 10.
1969
National Gallery of Art. Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art: Commemorating the tercentenary of the artist's death. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1969: 41, no. 37, repro.
1973
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.), no. 1004
1985
Schatborn, Peter. Tekeningen van Rembrandt in het Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam (1985), 104 (under no. 47).
2006
Dittrich, Christian, Thomas Ketelsen, et al. Rembrandt: Die Dresdener Zeichnungen. Cologne, 200: 147 (under no. 77).
Inscriptions
Inscribed by later hand lower left in brown ink: Rymbrandt
Watermarks
(cf. Briquet 9328-30)
Wikidata ID
Q64620302