The Betrothal of the Holy Virgin

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (upper corners rounded): 24.7 x 20.5 cm (9 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. C81

Accession Number

1942.9.671

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (artist)

Rembrandt van Rijn (related artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right verso in graphite: With the etched reproduction / E[G...?]; across bottom verso in graphite: Dessin etait dans la Collection du Captain Baillie / Rembrandt

Marks and Labels

recto: Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (Lugt 485); verso: Marsden Jasael Perry (Lugt 1880)

Provenance

Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (1766-1844), Paris and London (Lugt 485). Marsden Jasael Perry (Lugt 1880)

Associated Names

Claussin, Ignace-Joseph de
Perry, Marsden J.
Widener, Joseph E.

Bibliography

1925: Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 284

1973: Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.), no. C81