Satan Tempting Christ to Change Stones into Bread

1635/1640

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 16.3 x 21 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
    support: 22.2 x 26.7 cm (8 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.675

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 66


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

NGA Widener

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (as Rembrandt, retouched by later artist)

2015

  • Rembrandt's Christ, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; and Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2015-2016.

Bibliography

1925

  • Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 352.

1935

  • Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt: Werk und Forschung. Berlin, 1935: 15 and no. 66 (as Rembrandt, with later retouchings)

1957

  • Rotermund, Hans-Martin. "Rembrandts Bibel." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. 8 (1957): 139 (composition by Rembrandt, though possibly not the execution).

1958

  • Sumowski, Werner. Rembrandt erzählt das Leben Jesu. Berlin, 1958, p. 131 (as Rembrandt).

1961

  • Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. Review of Benesch 1954-7. Kunstchronik. XIV (1961): 21 (as Rembrandt School).

  • Sumowski, Werner. Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandt-zeichnungen. Bad Pyrmont, 1961: 4 (not convincing as Rembrandt).

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 66 (as Rembrandt): no. 66

1981

  • Sumowski 1981,vol.4, no.950a(x) (as Govaert Flinck).

1983

  • Wheelock, Arthur K. "The influence of Lucas van Leyden on Rembrandt's narrative etching'" in Essays in Northern European Art presented to Egbert Haverkamp Begemann (Doornspijk, 1983): p. 290 (as Rembrandt).

1992

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London, 1992: 41 (as Govaert Flinck).

1997

  • Plomp, Michiel C. The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum, Volume II, Artists Born between 1575 and 1630. Haarlem, 1997: 293 (as Govaert Flinck)

2005

  • Hautekeete, Stefaan. Les dessins de Rembrandt et ses élèves appartenant à la collection de Jean de Grez, Brussels, 2005, under no. 22, (as Govaert Flinck).

2009

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum. London, 2009: under no. 7 (as Govaert Flinck).

2010

  • Schatborn, Peter. The Early, Rembrandtesque Drawings of Govert Flinck." Master Drawings 48 (Spring 2010): p. 17 and note 53 (as Flinck)

2012

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. The Drawings of Rembrandt: a Revision of Otto Benesch's Catalogue Raisonné online reference, 2012 - . (rembrandtcatalogue.net, accessed 25 February 2016) (as Flinck?)

  • Sutton, Peter C., and William W. Robinson. Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and His Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection. New Haven, 2012: 82, under no. 22 (citing Schatborn's opinion that this is one of a group of drawings by Flinck).

Wikidata ID

Q64620304


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