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Rembrandt van Rijn

Satan Tempting Christ to Change Stones into Bread, 1635/1640

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink

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.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. 66

Accession Number

1942.9.675

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Provenance

NGA Widener

Associated Names

Widener, Joseph E.

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).

1961: 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?)

2012: 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).

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