Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener (Noli me tangere), Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1645

Identification

Title(s)

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener (Noli me tangere)

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1961-80

Catalogue reference

Schatborn 22

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1645

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with opaque white; framing line in brown ink; contours indented for transfer

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 154 mm × width 146 mm

Subject

What

Mary Magdalene kneeling before Christ, who is usually represented as a gardener with a hoe and/or a spade; 'Noli me tangere'

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1961

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Claude-Augustin Mariette (1652-1701/11), Paris (L. 1786); …; sale, Étienne-Edmond Martin, Baron de Beurnonville (1825-1906, Paris), Paris (Hôtel Drouot), 16 (17) February 1885 sqq., no. 205 (‘Jésus apparaissant à la Madeleine sous la figure d’un jardinier. Beau dessin à la plume’), frs. 135;{Copy RKD.} …; ? collection Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Paris;{According to Bern 1937, p. 44, no. 189.} …; collection Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, by 1934, 1937;{Valentiner II, 1925-34?, p. 67, image 508; Bern 1937, p. 44, no. 189.} by whom donated to the museum (L. 2228), 1949, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Rembrandt et la figure du Christ, p. 8, afb. 1.2
Rembrandt and the face of Jesus, p. 8, afb. 1.2
Oude tekeningen, nieuwe namen: Rembrandt en tijdgenoten, Peter 1936- Schatborn, p. 29, afb. 1a
Drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils: telling the difference : Ferdinand Bol, Willem Drost, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout ... [et al.], p. 100, cat.nr. 12.1
Rembrandt-Bilder, Thomas 1955- Ketelsen, p. 145, afb. 16.3
Tekeningen van Rembrandt, Peter Schatborn, p. 50, cat.nr. 22
Rembrandt after three hundred years, Jay Richard Judson, cat.nr. 109
Rembrandt and his circle, Francis Henry Taylor, cat.nr. 32
Loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and etchings by Rembrandt and his circle, Daniel Catton Rich, cat.nr. 33
De tekeningen [uit de schenking De Bruijn], Iohannes Quirijn van 1899-1980 Regteren Altena, p. 77, 85, afb. 21, cat.nr. 36

Persistent URL

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