Artist | Rembrandt (1606–1669) | | Alternative names | Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Description | Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer | Date of birth/death | 15 July 1606 | 4 October 1669 | Location of birth/death | Leiden | Amsterdam | Work period | between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 | Work location | | Authority file | | artist QS:P170,Q5598 | |
Object history | by 1745 date QS:P,+1745-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1745-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Jonathan Richardson Senior (1667-1745), London 30 January 1747: sale of the collection of Jonathan Richardson, sen. at Cock, lot no. 67, for £11.5s (as ‘One, “Rembrandt”, Christ carrying to the Sepulchre’) (?) 1761: given to the British Museum, London, by John Christman (as ‘a fine drawing of the ‘Raising of Lazarus’ after the manner of Rembrandt’) (?) 1769: bequeathed to the British Museum, London, by William Fawkener (?)
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Exhibition history | Guide to an exhibition of drawings and etchings by Rembrandt and etchings by other masters in the British Museum, British Museum, London, 1899, cat. no. A 3, p. 5, as ‘Entombment of Christ. Red chalk. From the Richardson sen. collection. Fawkener. Originally a composition for the Raising of Lazarus. Lazarus is seen r. raising his head: Christ stands above the tomb. his face partially obliterated. Compare the etchings by Lievens (no. 298) and Rembrandt himself (no. 98). Then a new group was introduced, in which the body of Christ is being lowered towards the tomb. 1630: dated’. Drawings and etchings by Rembrandt, British Museum, London, 1938, cat.: Summary list of the drawings and etchings by Rembrandt in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, cat. no. 2. Rembrandt and his succession. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London, 1956 to commemorate the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, British Museum, London, 1956–1957, cat. no. 6, p. 22. Rembrandt and the Passion. Prints and drawings, British Museum, London, 9 February 1984–29 April 1984, in-house catalog, cat. no. 8. Rembrandt en zijn voorbeelden/Rembrandt and his sources, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 2 November 1985–5 January 1986, cat. no. 8. Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, British Museum, London, 26 March 1992–4 August 1992, ISBN 9780714116402, cat. no. 15. Rembrandt and the Passion, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 15 September 2012–2 December 2012.
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References | British Museum, as Rembrandt, After Jan Lievens, After Jacob Louys, The Entombment of Christ (over the Raising of Lazarus), circa 1635 date QS:P,+1635-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 , Red chalk, corrected with white. |