Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 139
Bredius 554
Bauch 74
Gerson 217
Bredius/Gerson 554
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
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

Exhibitions

2019 Rembrandt's Light, Nr. 34
2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 101
1992 Dutch Art and Scotland: A Reflexion of Taste, Nr. 48
1956 Rembrandt - Paintings, Nr. 30
1898 De Rembrandt tentoonstelling te Amsterdam, Nr. 28

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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Iconclass

73D76 Christ's entombment (possibly by angels)

External links

RKD 52658

Other works by Rembrandt

Self-Portrait
1658

The Two Moors
1661

Self-Portrait
1632

Tobit and Anna with a Goat
1645

Man in Oriental Costume
1639