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    Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams
    Govaert Flinck. Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams, c. 1638. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002441

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    Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams

    by Govaert Flinck

    Inscriptions

    Old inscription of several words obscured by later over-writing, verso, upper left, in pen and brown ink

    Provenance

    Baron Grahame; sold, Mar. 15, 1878, lot 136.  Edward John Poynter (1836–1919), London [stamp (Lugt 874), recto, lower left, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 24–25, 1918, lot 281.  Victor Koch, London, by 1954 [Benesch 1954]; sold to William H. Schab, New York, 1966; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, Oct. 25–Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 162 and 207 (ill.), cat. 103 (as Rembrandt); also the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 24–Apr. 5, 1970. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference, Dec. 8, 2009–Feb. 28, 2010, pp. 65–67 and 252, cat. 4.2 (ill.), as Flinck. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 68 (ill.), 71, 296, cat. 19, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

    Publications

    Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1954), I: 25, no. 80, fig. 84, (as Rembrandt). Jakob Rosenberg, "Review of O. Benesch, Drawings by Rembrandt, Vols. I and II by Otto Benesch," The Art Bulletin 38, no. 1 (March, 1956), p. 67 (as follower of Rembrandt). New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, "Rembrandt: Drawings from American Collections," Mar. 15-Apr. 16, 1960, under no. 4, p. 12; also Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Apr. 27-May 29, 1960 (as Rembrandt). Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandt-zeichnungen, II (Bad Pyrmont: 1961), p. 4, no. 80 and p. 7, under no. C 12 (as doubtfully by Rembrandt). William H. Schab Gallery, Great Old Master Prints and Drawings XLII (Fall 1966), pp. 144–45, cat. 167 (ill.), (as Rembrandt). Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, “Rembrandt as a Teacher,” in Evolution generale et developpements regioneaux en histoire de l’art, Actes du XXIIe Congrès International D’Histoire de L’art, Budapest, 1969, ed. György Rózsa (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1972), p. 107 (as Rembrandt). Michiel C. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum (Haarlem/ Ghent/ Doornspijk: Snoeck Ducaju & Zoon, 1997), p. 293, (as Rembrandt).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Govaert Flinck / Dutch, 1615-1660
    Date
    c. 1638
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    17.3 × 20.6 cm (6 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Holland
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Accession no.
    1967.144

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