Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener (Noli me tangere)

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener (Noli me tangere)

RP-T-1930-29

Benesch 537

• draftsman (artist): Ferdinand Bol, Amsterdam
• draftsman (artist): Rembrandt van Rijn [rejected attribution]

c. 1640

pen and brown ink; framing line in brown ink

height 154 mm x width 191 mm

Gift of C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague

gift 1930

Public domain

…; ? sale, Samuel van Huls (1655-1734, The Hague), The Hague (J. Swart), 14 May 1736 sqq., Album Q, no. 921, as Rembrandt (‘Portefeuille Q. Contenant des Desseins de Rembrandt. Tobie, & 2 autres’), with nos. 922-924, fl. 1:18:- for all;{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} …; sale, Dr Friedrich Heimsoeth (1814-77, Bonn), Frankfurt (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879 sqq., no. 147, as Rembrandt, DM 145;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Edward Habich (1818-1901), Boston and Kassel (L. 862); his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 27 April 1899 sqq., no. 538, as Rembrandt, DM 170, to the dealer F.A. van Scheltema, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} from whom acquired by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague;{According to the Hofstede de Groot notes, KB, the drawing was purchased from the dealer Frederik Muller. In 1876 F.A. van Scheltema and Frederik Muller became partners and established an auction house at the Doelenstraat in Amsterdam. After the death of Muller in 1881, Van Scheltema took over the firm.} by whom donated, to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), as Rembrandt, 1930

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