Samuel van Hoogstraten

Thisbe discovers the dead Pyramus

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Property from the collection of the late Walter L. Strauss

Samuel van Hoogstraten

Dordrecht 1627 - 1678

Thisbe discovers the dead Pyramus

Pen and brown ink

137 by 205 mm; 5⅜ by 8⅛ in.

Prince Liechtenstein;
sale, Berne, Gutekunst & Klipstein, 16 June 1960, lot 214 (as Rembrandt);
Dr. Z. Bruck, Buenos Aires;
sale, Berne, Kornfeld, 20 June 1980, lot 110;
Walter L. Strauss, New York (1922-1988),
thence by descent

E. Bock & J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen alter Meister...Berlin...niederländischen Meister, 2 vols., Berlin 1930, p. 229, under no. 2691;
W. Sumowski, Das Leben Jesu in Bildern, Handzeichnungen, Radierungen von Rembrandt, Witten and Berlin 1963, p. 100, no. 22;
S. Slive, Drawings of Rembrandt, vol. I, New York 1965, under no. 266;
W. Sumowski, 1966, p. 303;
O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, rev. ed., 6 vols., London 1973, vol. 6, under no. A77;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 5, New York 1981, pp. 2590-91, no. 1167x, reproduced and p. 2708, under no. 1222x

The present work is preliminary for a drawing of the same subject and composition in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.¹ Sumowski compares the Strauss drawing in manner to a sheet depicting Hagar in the Desert,² previously in the Valentiner collection, and dates both works to the mid-1650s.

^1. W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 5, New York 1981, pp. 2708-9, no. 1222x, reproduced

^2. Ibid. pp. 2704-5, reproduced