Esther before Ahasuerus

1655/1660

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.3 x 17.2 cm (6 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, undescribed


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

B.F. Nicholson (sold, Sotheby's, London, March 23, 1971, no. 90); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1971; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, beginning with Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahama City; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971, and Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 69.

1976

  • Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, (not in catalogue -- added late?).

2006

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

Bibliography

1972

  • Christopher White, "The Hammer Collection: Drawings," Apollo, vol. 95 (June, 1972), pp.458-60, fig. 5.

1973

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

Watermarks

Arms of Amsterdam

Wikidata ID

Q64620318


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