Abraham Furnerius

Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445);
William Esdaile (L.2617);
J.P. Heseltine (L.1507),
his sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller, 27 May 1913, lot 29 (as Rembrandt, A View of Dordrecht);
M. et Mme. Louis Cartier,
by descent to their son, Claude Cartier,
his sale, Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, 26 November 1979, lot 504 (as Attributed to Rembrandt)

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Exposition d'oeuvres de Rembrandt, 1908

E. Michel, Rembrandt, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps, Paris 1893, no. 24;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906, no. 1042 (as Rembrandt)

Laid down. Various repaired tears in sky. lightly foxed and a little faded, but still very legible.
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In a letter dated 16 September 1992, Dr. Werner Sumowski confirmed the attribution, and stated that he would include the drawing in the forthcoming volume 15 of his Drawings of the Rembrandt School.

The short-lived Furnerius may have studied with his brother-in-law Philips Koninck, before entering Rembrandt's studio around 1642, where he trained alongside Samuel van Hoogstraten and Carel Fabritius.  Signed drawings by the artist are not known, but an oeuvre has been reconstructed around several works inscribed with convincing early attributions.¹

1.  H. Bevers, L. Hendrix, W.W. Robinson & P. Schatborn, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils, Telling the Difference, exhib. cat., Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009-10, pp. 158-63