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Title:The Wedding Night of Tobias and Sarah
Artist:Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Date:1640–49
Medium:Pen brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (17.5 x 23.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number:06.1042.2
Inscription: verso: Esdaile's notation of the source and date of acquisition of drawing: 1798 Sr Jos Reynolds colln WE P84 Rembrandt. (J.L.A. My. 42 CMH) verso center in pencil: f5 verso center in pen & brown ink: 10
Marking: Lower right collectors' marks of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364) and William Esdaile (Lugt 2617).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (British); William Esdaile (British); Vendor: Muller , through Roger Eliot Fry
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," March 15, 1960–April 16, 1960.
Morgan Library & Museum. "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," April 27, 1960–May 29, 1960.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 10–June 9, 1985.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints, A Selection in Honor of the Artist's 400th Birthday," July 10–October 15, 2006.
"The Collection of Drawings." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1, New York, 1906, pp. 160-61, ill.
George Sidney Hellman "Drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists in the Metropolitan Museum" in Print-Collector's Quarterly. vol. 5, December 1915, pp. 386-7, ill.
William Reinhold Valentiner "Deutung der "Judenbraut." in Kunst und Kunstler. 1924, p. 19.
William Reinhold Valentiner Rembrandt, Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. vol. 2, Berlin & Leipzig, 1929, cat. no. 242, p. 291.
William M. Ivins Jr. The Unseen Rembrandt. 1942, pls. 41, 42, ill.
William M. Ivins Jr. "The Art of Rembrandt." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 1, January 1942, p. 14, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, also N.S., no. 24., cat. no. 12 (vol.2), fig. no. 12, ill.
Louise Burroughs "Rembrandt and His Circle." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 7, New York, June 1949, cat. no. 10, p. 283, ill.
Otto Benesch The Drawings of Rembrandt: The Middle Period (part 1): 1640-1650 [a critical and chronological catalogue]. vol. 3, New York, 1955, cat. no. 633, fig. no. 767, p. 176, ill.
Claude Roger-Marx Rembrandt. 1960, fig. no. pl. 60d, p. 196, ill.
Werner Sumowski Bemerkungen zu Otto Benesch Corpus der Rembrandt-Zeichnungen. vol. 2, 1961, p. 13.
Christian Tümpel "Studien zur Ikonographie der Historien Rembrandts." in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. vol. 20, 1961, cat. no. 139, fig. no. 56, pp. 177-178, ill.
Julius S. Held "Rembrandt and the Book of Tobit" Gehenna Essays in Art. Northampton, Mass., 1964, fig. no. 17, p. 13, ill.
Christian Tümpel Nederlands Jaarboek. vol. 20, 1969, p. 177.
Otto Benesch (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch) The Drawings of Rembrandt. Complete Edition in Six Volumes. vol. 2, London, 1973, cat. no. 633, fig. no. 810, ill.
A. Hyatt Mayor "Rembrandt and the Bible." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.s. vol. 36, no. 3, Winter 1978, fig. no. 7, p. 9, ill.
Peter Schatborn, Christian Tümpel Het boek Tobias. 1987, pp. 35, 62-63, ill.
Jeroen Giltaij The Drawings by Rembrandt and his School, in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Rotterdam, 1988, note 1, cat. no. 145, fig. no. a, pp. 270-71, ill.
Peter Schatborn, Erik Hinterding Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings. Taschen, Cologne, 2019, cat. no. D147, p. 121, ill.
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