The Holy Family at Night, Rembrandt van Rijn (workshop of), c. 1642 - c. 1648
oil on panel, h 66.5cm × w 78cm More details
The Holy Family at Night, Rembrandt van Rijn (workshop of), c. 1642 - c. 1648
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Identification
Title(s)
The Holy Family at Night
Object type
Object number
SK-A-4119
Inscriptions / marks
- signature
- inscription: ‘Margriet Six’
Description
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.
Creation
Artist
- painter: Rembrandt van Rijn (workshop of)
Dating
c. 1642 - c. 1648
Material and Technique
Physical features
oil on panel
Material
Technique
Measurements
height 66.5 cm × width 78 cm
Subject
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
Acquisition
purchase 1965
Copyright
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
Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)
Documentation
- Rembrandt, Richard Hamann, p. 288, 291-292, afb. 197
- Rembrandt's leven en kunst, Jan Veth
- Turner and the masters, David H. Solkin, Guillaume Faroult, p. 148-149
- Exhibition of the golden years of Dutch painting : Rembrandt to Van Gogh and further to contemporary artists, p. 7, cat.nr. 1
- 125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit : met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, p. 131-133, 219, afb. 181
- Rembrandt and the Golden Age : highlights from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, cat.nr. 45
- Rembrandt? : the master and his workshop, Eva de la Fuente Pedersen, Lene Boegh Roenberg, Ernst van de Wetering, p. 94
- Rembrandt : zoektocht van een genie, Bob van den Boogert, Michiel Franken, Ernst van de Wetering, p. 32
- Nederland in de Gouden Eeuw, dl. 4, cat.nr. 1902
- Rembrandt and the Rembrandt school : the bible, mythology and ancient history, Akira Kofuku, p. 15
- Rembrandt : the Holy Family, St Petersburg, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, p. 15 met afb.
- All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 77
- Rembrandt, dl. 4, p. 15, 92, cat.nr. 250
- Rembrandt, p. 100, 104, afb. 1, 4
- Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, p. 49
- De dood van Seneca door Gerard van Honthorst?, Lucas Derks, Michiel Christiaan Plomp, Joop Speth, p. 368
- The arrogant connoisseur : Richard Payne Knight 1751-1824, Michael Clarke, Nicholas Penny, p. 149, afb. 33
- Rembrandt : Gemälde, p. 49
- Rembrandt : de meester en zijn werk, Gerhardus Knuttel (Wzn), p. 145, 276
- Rembrandt and his critics 1630-1730, Seymour Slive, p. 149, afb. 33
- Georges de La Tour, François-Georges Pariset, p. 368
- Rembrandt schilderijen 630 afbeeldingen, p. 280, afb. 568
- Rembrandt : Werk und Forschung [ : 1 1935], Otto Benesch, dl. 4, p. 36, cat.nr. 91
- Rembrandt, Werner Weisbach, p. 154-155, 386
- La galerie du régent Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, Casimir Stryienski, p. 108, 182, cat.nr. 398
- Rembrandt : des Meisters Gemälde in 643 Abbildungen, p. 9, 45, 59, cat.nr. 60
- Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrh., Kurt Erasmus, Kurt Freise, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Eduard Plietzsch, Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, dl. 4, cat.nr. 91
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- Rembrandt : sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps [ : 1 1893a], Émile Michel, dl. 1, p. 196
- Tableaux et dessins de Rembrandt : catalogue historique et descriptif, Eugene Dutuit, dl. 3, p. 9, 45, 59, cat.nr. 60
- Treasures of art in Great Britain : bein an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., and c., Gustav Friedrich Waagen, dl. 2, p. 501
- A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters : in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England : a reference to the galleries and private collections, in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added a brief notice of the scholars and imitators of the great masters of the above schools, dl. 7, p. 63, cat.nr. 145
- Memoirs of painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French revolution, W. Buchanan, dl. 1, p. 196
- Galerie du Palais Royal gravée d'après les tableaux des différentes écoles qui la composent, dl. 3, 4e tabbleau
- Description des tableaux du Palais Royal avec la vie des peintres à la tête de leurs ouvrages [1727], Louis François Dubois de Saint Gelais, p. 363
- Ooit Rembrandts 'vermaarde schilderij' : de receptiegeschiedenis van Heilige Familie bij avond, Taco Dibbits
- Van Fotocommissie tot Rijksmuseum-Stichting (1920-1998)
- Rembrandts Heilige Familie bij avond., Pieter J.J. van Thiel
- The Rembrandt Database, Object information, studio ofatelier vanRembrandt, The holy family at night, c. 1645, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A-4119, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2934/the-holy-family-at-night, accessed 2016 February 01
- Annual report : Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (1999), p. 19-20 met afb.
- P. Hecht, 'Een topstuk in de hoek gezet', Kunstschrift (1994) nr. 1, p. 2, 3.
- Apollo, the Orléans Collection (mei 1984), p. 361, 362 ("The Cradle")
- Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant, 7 (maart 1981) nr. 8
- D. Sutton, 'Robert Langton Douglas, Agent for the Metropolitan Museum', Apollo CX (juni 1979), p. 412, 413, 414, afb. 3 ("The Cradle")
- Gazette des Beaux Arts, LXVII (feb. 1966), p. 85 (afgeb. als aanwinst voor het Rijksmuseum)
- E.R. Meijer, 'Rembrandt en Cuyp', Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, (18 sept. 1965)
- P.J.J. van Thiel, 'Rembrandts Heilige Familie bij avond', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (1965), p. 143
- B. Bakker, 'De nieuwe Rembrandt in het Rijksmuseum', De Kroniek van de Vriendenkring van het Rembrandthuis, 19 (31 oktober 1965) nr. 5, p. 96-102
- J. Rosenberg, 'Die Rembrandt-Ausstellung in Holland', Kunstchronik, 9 (1956), p. 347
- X. de Salas, 'Rembrandt', Goya Revista de Arte,15 (nov-dec. 1956), p. 144
- Jan Veth, Rembrandts leven en kunst, Amsterdam 1946 [2e druk], p. 138.
- A. von Wurzbach, Rembrandt-Galerie, 1886, afb. 157 (repr. van de gravure door Guttenberg)
- J. Richardson Jr., An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings, and Paintings in Italy, etc., London 1722, p. 21
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