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Attributed to Barent Fabritius Midden-Beemster near Hoorn 1624 - 1673 Amsterdam
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Description
- Barent Fabritius
- rest on the flight into egypt
- bears signature, lower right: Rembrandt, and an inscription, verso: Fuite en Egipte Par Rembrandt/achetée à Amsterdam Par Mr. De Claufsin, le 19 mars 1818.;
point of the brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk
Provenance
Chevalier Ignace-Joseph de Claussin, according to inscription on verso;
With Alfred Brod, London, Summer Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1962, cat. no. 49
With Alfred Brod, London, Summer Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1962, cat. no. 49
Exhibited
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Nederlandse Tekeningen 16e en 17e Eeuw.., 1963, cat. no. 24, reproduced;
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse Tekeningen..., 1968, cat. no. 36, reproduced; (in both cases as Barent Fabritius).
Literature
W. Sumowski, 'Zwei Rembrandt -Originale', Pantheon, vol. XXII, 1964, p. 188;
W. Werner, 'Bemerkungen zu Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule in der Albertina', Albertina-Studien, 5-6, 1967-8, p. 52 (as Barent Fabritius);
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. IV, New York 1981, cat. no. 860xx, pp. 1872-73 (as attributed to Barent Fabritius);
M. van Berge-Gerbaud, Rembrandt et son école. Dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt, exhib. cat., Paris, Institut Néerlandais, and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1997-8, p. 37, under cat. no. 14 (as 'given by Sumowski to Barent Fabritius')
W. Werner, 'Bemerkungen zu Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule in der Albertina', Albertina-Studien, 5-6, 1967-8, p. 52 (as Barent Fabritius);
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. IV, New York 1981, cat. no. 860xx, pp. 1872-73 (as attributed to Barent Fabritius);
M. van Berge-Gerbaud, Rembrandt et son école. Dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt, exhib. cat., Paris, Institut Néerlandais, and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1997-8, p. 37, under cat. no. 14 (as 'given by Sumowski to Barent Fabritius')
Catalogue Note
As noted by Sumowski (loc. cit., 1981), the figures of the Holy Family relate to those in a drawing in the Lugt collection, published as Rembrandt by Benesch (see O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, vol. III, revised and enlarged edition, London 1973, cat. no. 600, reproduced fig. 773) and also by Mària van Berge-Gerbaud (loc. cit.), but thought by others to be possibly a school work. That drawing is, however, a pen and ink study of the figure group alone, without any indication of their spatial context. Another version of the present composition, possibly also by Barend Fabritius, is in the Albertina, Vienna (reproduced, Sumowski, op. cit., 1981, p. 2319, fig. 59); there the composition is reversed and the figure group placed symmetrically within the scene.