Name: CIRCLE OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
Brand: Jacob's Dream
Price: 42000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

CIRCLE OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
Jacob's Dream
oil on panel
23¹⁄₄ x 17¹⁄₂ in. (59 x 44.5 cm.)

Sir John Henry Greville-Smyth, 1st Baronet (1836-1901), Ashton Court, Bristol.
Dr. Max Welti, Switzerland, his sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 26 June 1954, lot 2263, as 'Tobias and the Angel, by Ferdinand Bol'.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 25 November 1972, lot 2468, as 'Isaac's Dream, attributed to Ferdinand Bol', where acquired by the following,
with Alfred Bader Fine Art, Milwaukee, from whom acquired by the present owner.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, Landau, 1983, pp. 2388, 2397, no. 16, illustrated, as 'Willem Bartsius'.
B. Van Haute, 'Willem Bartsius and the art of Dutch history painting', Oud Holland, CXXI, 2008, pp. 225-226, 241, note 83, as 'incorrectly attributed to Willem Bartsius'.

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Bible through Dutch Eyes: From Genesis through the Apocrypha, 9 April-23 May 1976, no. 15, as 'Rembrandt School, ca. 1650'.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, From Rembrandt to Parmigianino: Old Masters from Private Collections, 29 July-23 October, 2016, no. 16, as 'Rembrandt School, possibly Ferdinand Bol'.

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The sleeping figure of Jacob in the present work can be compared with the same figure in a drawing variously attributed to Rembrandt or an artist in his studio and datable to circa 1650 in the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (see E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Die Niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, p. 221, no. 2696). A second drawing by Rembrandt, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. RF 4718), of a sleeping figure datable to approximately the same time may also have provided inspiration for the figure of Jacob. A highly comparable painting by Rembrandt's pupil Gerbrand van den Eeckhout dated 1669 is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (see W. Sumowski, op. cit., II, pp. 741, 832, no. 469, illustrated).