Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 36
Bredius 526
Bauch 35
Gerson -
Bredius/Gerson (workshop)
Tümpel A3 (Rembrandt workshop)
Bikker R2 (rejected as by Willem Drost)
Corpus VI 212
Manuth 26 (doubtful)
Giltaij 565

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 262-263 (Rembrandt and/or studio of)

Literature
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 21
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 250-251

Exhibitions

1991 Bredius, Rembrandt, en het Mauritshuis!!!, Nr. 11
1898 De Rembrandt tentoonstelling te Amsterdam, Nr. 118

Provenance

Victor de Riquet, Duke of Caraman, as Paris, before 1830
Didot de Saint-Marc Collection, Paris, 1835-1863
Alphonse Audry, Paris, 1863-1869
Alexis-Joseph Febure, Paris, c. 1870
with Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris
Albert, Baron von Oppenheim, Cologne, 1876
Philippe George, Ay near Epernay, before 1890
with Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, 1890-1898
Abraham Bredius, The Hague, 1898-1946 (on loan to the Mauritshuis since 1898)
bequest of Abraham Bredius, 1946
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Iconclass

71H153 Saul casts his spear at David when the latter is playing his harp before the king (1 Samuel 18:11)

External links

RKD 2912
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 621

Other works by Rembrandt

David and Jonathan
1642

Oil study of an old man
c. 1630

Portrait of a man (Balthasar Coymans?)
1641 (?)

Portrait of a 40-year-old woman, possibly Marretje Cornelisdr van Grotewal
1634

The prophetess Anna in the Temple
1650 or c. 1646