The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee

c. 1650/1655

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    reed pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.8 x 18.7 cm (8 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 587a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson Sr. [1665-1745] (Lugt 2183), London; Thomas Hudson [1701-1779] (Lugt 2432), London; Mrs. Symonds (her sale, Oxford, 11 April 1951); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1963, lot 66); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; given to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 64.

1976

  • Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, 194.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 52.

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 74.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 62.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 64.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 78.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 71.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1964

  • Benesch, Otto. "Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen von Rembrandt." Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 4 (1964): 127-130.

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 587z

1977

  • de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Ian Woodner, amateur américain de réputation mondiale, commente quelques oeuvres majeures de sa collection." Connaissance des Arts CCCX (1977): 104.

1992

  • Dethloff, Diana. "Patterns of drawing collecting in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England." Drawing: Masters and Methods Raphael to Redon Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, fig. 7.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 71.

2012

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. The Drawings of Rembrandt: a Revision of Otto Benesch's Catalogue Raisonné, online reference, 2012 - in progress. (rembrandtcatalogue.net, 15 March 2023, accessed 15 January 2025), Benesch 587a (as "School of Rembrandt, Willem Drost?)

Wikidata ID

Q64632806

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