SCHOOL OF REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)
Tobias and the Angel (recto); A compositional study (verso)
with inscription ‘From the collection of/ E. Ramiro, author of the/ catalogue of Rops, the great/ Belgian etcher.’ (verso)

pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto); brush and brown wash (verso), watermark foolscap
6⁷⁄₈ x 8¹⁄₄ in. (16.4 x 20.8 cm)

Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island (L. 1880).
Eugène Rodrigues (1853-1928), also known as Erastène Ramiro, Paris (L. 897).
Probably André de Hevesy (1882-probably after 1945), Paris.

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Lot Essay

The subject of Tobias cutting up the fish at the instruction of an angel in order to cure his father’s blindness is treated in other drawings by pupils of Rembrandt, including one by Philips Koninck in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. RP-T-1930-19 (W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, VI, New York, 1982, no. 1523a, ill.).