Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (bottom center): BFabritius [BF in monogram, with B reversed] / 1658
Notes Other paintings of this subject by Fabritius are in the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (about 1650), and the Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull (about 1666).
Provenance ?Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (possibly acting as agent for Chambers); ?Sir William Chambers, London, Hampton Court, and Whitton Place, near Hounslow (until d. 1796); by descent to George Chambers; Chambers family; Miss E. M. Chambers (until 1957; sold to Leger); [Leger, London, 1957; sold for £800 to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, New York, 1957–75; bequeathed by Harry G. Sperling, last surviving partner of firm, to MMA]
Exhibition History Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Rembrandt and His Pupils," January 9–February 23, 1969, no. 51.
Toronto. Art Gallery of Ontario. "Rembrandt and His Pupils," March 14–April 27, 1969, no. 51.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 10, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 48.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References Harry G. Sperling. Letter to D. Pont . November 18, 1957.Barent Fabritius, 1624–1673 . Utrecht, 1958, pp. 47–48, 103–4, no. 4, fig. 17.Kunstchronik 12 (October 1959), p. 288.Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler . 2, Landau/Pfalz, 1983–[94?], pp. 912, 915, 918, 920, no. 557, ill. p. 937 (color).A Guide to Dutch Art in America . Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 183.in "Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: Art-Historical Perspectives." Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, [1995], pp. 19, 145–46, 149, no. 48, ill.in The Dictionary of Art . 10, New York, 1996, p. 733.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 198–200, no. 45, colorpl. 45.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), p. 61.
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