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The Holy Family at Night
De heilige familie bij avond. Interieur verlicht door kaarslicht met Maria en Anna bij de wieg waarin het Christuskind slaapt. Maria leest uit een boek, Anna houdt het wiegenkoord in de handen. Jozef zit links onder de trap. Op een tafel rechts staan een paar oude schoenen, een fles en een vijzel. Aan de muur hangt achter Anna een kaart op rollen.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73B8
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73B8
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1642 - c.1648
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ? Collection Jan Six (1618-1700) and Margaretha Tulp (1632-1709), Amsterdam; ? their daughter Margaretha Six (1666-1718), Amsterdam;{An old inscription in ink on the reverse of the panel reads ‘Margrita Six’. Van de Wetering et al. 2011, pp. 387-8 identifies her as the daughter of Jan Six and Margaretha Tulp, who may, therefore, have been the original owners.} …; collection Philippe Duc d’Orléans (1674-1723), Cabinet du lit jaune, Palais Royal, Paris, as Rembrandt, by 1720;{Richardson 1722, p. 21 (‘A Woman reading to her Mother, while the Old Woman nods in, rocking the Cradle, where her Grandchild sleeps: The same Size as the finish’d Drawing my father has, and exactly the same, as far a Drawing and Picture can be. All the good properties of a Picture (of this subject) are here in a very high Degree, and some as high as one can conceive ‘t is possible to raise them. They are plain People, and in a Cottage; and Nature and Humour must be instead of Grace and Greatness; the Expression is exquisite; the Colouring warm, and transparent; a vast number of Parts put together with utmost Harmony; and for the Clair-Obscure it may stand in Competition with the Notte of Correggio, or any other picture.’ Richardson would have seen the painting in 1720 when he was in France before going on to Italy.} his sale, Paris (D’Argenson), 9 June 1727, p. 11, as Rembrandt (‘Un Vieillard, une Femme & un Enfant au berceau sujet de nuit. Toille. Hauteur 1 pied 10 pouces. Largeur 2 pied 4 pouces [59.5 x 75.8 cm]’), unsold; by descent to his great-grandson, Louis Philippe Joseph d’Orléans (1747-93), known as Philippe Égalité, Paris and Château du Raincy; from whom purchased with the other Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Orléans collection through the mediation of Thomas Moore Slade, by Lord Kinniard, Mr Morland and Mr Hammersley, 1792 and exhibited for sale at 125 Pall Mall, London, April 1793;{Buchanan 1824, I, pp. 159-65; London 1793, no. 34 (‘Cradle by Rembrandt’)}; from whom, 1,000 gns, to Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), Downton Castle, Herefordshire;{Buchanan 1824, I, p. 196.} by descent to William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid Lennox (1892-1969), with Downton Castle, Herefordshire; from whom, £ 610,000, through the dealer Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Fotocommissie; on loan to Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 2011-14
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5239
- SK-A-4119
Extent
- height 66.5 cm
- width 78 cm
Format
- mahogany (wood)
- oil paint (paint)
- Mahogany wood
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:53.437Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:00.965Z