Hagar and the Angel at the Well on the Way to Shur, Ferdinand Bol, c. 1640

Identification

Title(s)

Hagar and the Angel at the Well on the Way to Shur

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1930-27

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Ferdinand Bol
draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn (rejected attribution)

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1640

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with brown wash; framing line in brown ink

Material

paper
ink

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 182 mm × width 233 mm

Subject

What

an angel meets Hagar at the fountain on the way to Shur and persuades her to return

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague

Acquisition

gift 1930

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Graaf Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836), St Petersburg (L. 2332); …; collection Remigius Adrianus van Haanen (1812-94), Vienna;{Note RMA.} …; purchased from H. Lang-Larisch, Munich, with nine other drawings, as Rembrandt, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1900;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), as Rembrandt, 1930

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Oude tekeningen, nieuwe namen : Rembrandt en tijdgenoten, Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt, Leonore van Sloten, p. 31, afb. 1c
Drawings of the Rembrandt School, Werner Sumowski, Walter L. Strauss, p. 202, cat.nr. 89
Teekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school [1943], Max Dittmar Henkel, p. 64, cat.nr. 1

Persistent URL

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