Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
David carrying the head of Goliath
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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Amsterdam 1621 - 1674
David carrying the head of Goliath
Pen and brown ink
130 by 169 mm; 5⅛ by 6⅝ in.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon;
J. Gigoux, Besançon, by 1906;
Curtis O. Baer (1898-1976), New Rochelle (L.3366)
J. Gigoux, Besançon, by 1906;
Curtis O. Baer (1898-1976), New Rochelle (L.3366)
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, 1958, no. 31 (as Rembrandt School, mentioning the suggestion of an attribution to Eeckhout);
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, et al, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, (catalogue by Eric M. Zafran) 1985, no. 38
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, et al, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, (catalogue by Eric M. Zafran) 1985, no. 38
C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906, p. 128, no. 547 (as Rembrandt);
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. III, New York 1980, pp. 1618-9, no. 750x
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. III, New York 1980, pp. 1618-9, no. 750x
Professor Werner Sumowski endorsed the attribution to Eeckhout, first mentioned in the 1958 Fogg exhibition catalogue, comparing the drawing with the signed Dismissal of Hagar, and the Two Orientals, both in Berlin.1 He suggests, however, that whereas the first Berlin drawing seems to be an early work of the 1640s, this sheet must date from significantly later, and places it in the early 1660s.
1. Sumowski, op. cit., nos. 604 and 738x