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)
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Documentation
- Rembrandt, Richard, 1879-1961 Hamann, p. 288, 291-292, afb. 197
- Rembrandt's leven en kunst, Jan, 1864-1925 Veth
- Turner and the masters, David H. Solkin, p. 148-149
- Exhibition of the golden years of Dutch painting, p. 7, cat.nr. 1
- 125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit: met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, Peter Hecht, p. 131-133, 219, afb. 181
- Rembrandt and the Golden Age, Ruud Priem, cat.nr. 45
- Rembrandt?, Lene Bøgh Rønberg, p. 94
- Rembrandt, Ernst van de 1938- Wetering, p. 32
- Nederland in de Gouden Eeuw, Nelleke Noordervliet, dl. 4, cat.nr. 1902
- Rembrandt and the Rembrandt school, Akira Kofuku, p. 15
- Rembrandt, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, p. 15 met afb.
- All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 77
- Rembrandt, Otto Pächt, dl. 4, p. 15, 92, cat.nr. 250
- Rembrandt, Otto Pächt, p. 100, 104, afb. 1, 4
- Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Werner Sumowski, p. 49
- De dood van Seneca door Gerard van Honthorst?, Lucas Derks, p. 368
- The arrogant connoisseur, Michael Clarke, p. 149, afb. 33
- Rembrandt: Gemälde, Kurt Bauch, p. 49
- Rembrandt: de meester en zijn werk, Gerhardus, 1889-1968 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, Abraham 1855-1946 Bredius, p. 280, afb. 568
- Rembrandt, 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, Adolf 1850-1906 Rosenberg, p. 9, 45, 59, cat.nr. 60
- Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Cornelis 1863-1930 Hofstede de Groot, dl. 4, cat.nr. 91
- Rembrandt, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929 Bode, dl. 7, p. 63, cat.nr. 145
- Rembrandt, Emile Michel, dl. 1, p. 196
- Tableaux et dessins de Rembrandt, Eugène Dutuit, dl. 3, p. 9, 45, 59, cat.nr. 60
- Treasures of art in Great Britain, 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 & imitators of the great masters of the above schools, John Smith, dl. 7, p. 63, cat.nr. 145
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- 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', Taco Dibbits
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- 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")
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- 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
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- 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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