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Rembrandt van Rijn

Lot and His Family Leaving Sodom, 1652/1655

Not on View

Medium

pen and light brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 20.5 x 29.5 cm (8 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. 963

Accession Number

1942.9.670

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: G H Ay B1 [?]; at lower right in graphite in later hand: F C x VI [?] / Rembrandt [name circled]

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Marsden J. Perry (Lugt 1880)

Provenance

Marsden J. Perry (Lugt 1880), NGA Widener

Associated Names

Perry, Marsden J.
Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1935: Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 53, repro.

1954: Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954.

1965: Works of Faith, Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 1965.

1966: Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1969: Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 35, 40, repro.

1977: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Denver Art Museum; and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1977, no. 35, repro.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 57.

1985: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1925: Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 38

1969: National Gallery of Art. Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art: Commemorating the tercentenary of the artist's death. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1969: 40, no. 35, repro.

1973: Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): 963

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 668, no. 1065, color repro.

2009: Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum. London, 2009: under no. 106, as attribution "suspect."