Rembrandt

The Entombment



Rembrandt - The Entombment



Rembrandt
The Entombment
c. 1639
32.2 x 40.5 cm
Oil on panel
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 139
Bredius 554
Bauch 74 info
Gerson 217
Bredius/Gerson 554 info
Tümpel 59
Corpus III A 105
J. Bruyn, B. Haak, S.H. Levie, P.J.J. van Thiel, E. van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Dordrecht; Boston; London, 1989, A105
Corpus VI 114 info
Manuth 51
Giltaij 598

Literature
Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarssen, 1984, fig. 110
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt in nieuw licht, Amsterdam, 2009, fig. 107
Bernhard Schnackenburg, Jan Lievens, Petersberg, 2016, fig. 106



Provenance

Possibly identical with the Sketch of the Entombment of Christ by Rembrandt listed in Rembrandt's insolvency inventory, 1656
with Pierre-Freançois Basan, Paris, in c. 1760-65
from whom bought by Robert Strange (1721-1792), engraver and dealer, London, c. 1765
his sale, Christie's, 8 February 1771, nr. 61, bought for £12 12s. by William Hunter (1718-1783), London
by whom bequeathed to the University of Glasgow for the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, 1783
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External links

RKD 52658

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