Joseph Recounting His Dreams

early 1640s

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

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.3 x 22.4 cm (6 13/16 x 8 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 527


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mlle M. Hoofman (sale, Haarlem, Engesmet, 9 June 1846, no. A.33: Eene Historiëele Ordonnantie met 14 beelden, met de pen en O.I. inkt [a historical composition with 14 figures, in pen and Indian ink]); Gérard Leembruggen Jz. (his sale, Amsterdam, Roos, Engelberts, Lamma and Roos, 5 March 1866, no. 470); to Jan Six (sale, Amsterdam, Muller, 16 October 1928, lot 62); Lady Violet Melchett; Matthiesen Gallery; purchased by Paul Havatny, 1947 (his sale, London, Christie's, 24 June 1980, lot 74); Henry Hudson; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 24 May 1984; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Rembrandt, 1606-1956, Boymans Museum, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, 1956, no. 88.

1985

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 100 (checklist only).

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, 1986-87, no. 75.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 63.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 63.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 77.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 70, as "attributed to."

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

1877

  • Vosmaer, Carel. Rembrandt. Sa vie et ses oeuvres. The Hague, 1877: 585.

1888

  • Lippmann, F. and Hofstede de Groot, C. Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Reproduced in Phototype. 4 vols. Berlin and elsewhere, 1888-1911: I; no. 7.

1906

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. Haarlem, 1906: no. 1231.

1921

  • Bredt, E.W. Rembrandt - Bibel: Altes Testament, Neues Testament. Munich, 1921: 39.

1925

  • Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt: Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. 2 vols. Stuttgart-Berlin, 1925-1934: I: no. 87.

1926

  • Kauffmann, H. "Zur Kritik der Rembrandtzeichnungen." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft XLVII (1926): 169.

1935

  • Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt: Werk und Forschung. Vienna, 1935: 37.

1937

  • Münz, L. Die graphischen Kunste. Vienna, 1937: II: 105.

1954

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London, 1954-1957: 3I:no. 527, fig. 657.

1961

  • Haverkamp-Begemann, E. Review of Benesch 1954-7. Kunstchronik. XIV (1961): 51-2.

1964

  • Benesch, Otto. 'Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen von Rembrandt.' Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 6 (1964): 123, no. 11.

1965

  • Slive, Seymour. Drawings of Rembrandt. 2 vols. New York, 1965: I: pl. 224.

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.)527

1984

  • de Bayser, Bruno. "Rêves de collectionneur." Connaissance des arts December 1984: 77, 79.

1992

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. Exh. cat. British Museum, London, 1992: 102, mentioned under no. 38 and note 5.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 70.

2012

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. The Drawings of Rembrandt: a Revision of Otto Benesch's Catalogue Raisonné online reference, 2012 - in progress. (rembrandtcatalogue.net, Benesch 527, 8 August 2021, accessed 14 January 2025), as "Ferdinand Bol?/Rembrandt?? Retouched by Rembrandt."

Wikidata ID

Q64620316


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