Attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten Dordrecht 1627 - 1678

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Description

Samuel van Hoogstraten
tobias frightened by the fish (tobit 6:2-4)
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

Provenance

Tobias Christ, Basel;
Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm

Exhibited

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden, verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, cat. no. 93 (as Rembrandt School, 17th Century)

Literature

Müller, 1925, p. 208, cat. no. 1 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten);
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, XXXI, vol. I, Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig 1925, p. 478, under cat. no. 233 (as Rembrandt School);
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London 1955, vol. III, p. 176, under cat. no. 636;
Rotermund 1960, pls. 11 and 14 (as school of, or after Rembrandt);
W. Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Benesch's Corpus der Rembrandt-Zeichnungen II, Bad Pyrmont 1961, p. 13, under cat. no. 636;
Dittrich in Cat. Zurich 1971, p. 229, under cat. no. 193 (as Rembrandt School);
Weskott 1974, p. 83 (as Rembrandt School)
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. V, New York 1981, cat. no. 1192^X

Catalogue Note

Sumowski (loc. cit.) lists this as a copy of a lost original by Hoogstraten, its composition in turn loosely derived from a Rembrandt sketch of the same subject, in Dresden.