The Sleeping Disciples, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1650 - 1653

Title(s)

The Sleeping Disciples

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1902-A-4674

Artist

• draughtsman: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (mentioned on object)

Dating

1650 - 1653

Physical features

point of brush and grey ink, with grey wash, over a sketch in black chalk; framing line in brown ink

Material

• paper

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 220 mm × width 186 mm

What

• sleeping; unconsciousness

Acquisition

purchase 1902

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Drawings of the Rembrandt School, Werner Sumowski, Walter L. Strauss, dl. 3, p. 1356, cat.nr. 623
• Teekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school [1943], Max Dittmar Henkel, p. 74, cat.nr. bij nr. 2