David Playing his Harp before Saul, with a Servant and Other Musicians

David Playing his Harp before Saul, with a Servant and Other Musicians

RP-T-1963-271

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Willem Drost, Amsterdam
• draftsman (artist): Jan Victors [rejected attribution]
• draftsman (artist): Carel Fabritius [rejected attribution]

c. 1650 - c. 1655

reed pen and brown ink, with brown wash, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or dry brush, on paper toned with light brown wash

height 159 mm x width 216 mm

purchase 1963

Public domain

…; collection Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), London (L. 2364); ? his sale, London (A.C. de Poggi), 26 May 1794, possibly one of the drawings in Album QQ, nos. 960-85, or Album PP, nos. 987-1009 (drawings not specified); or his sale, London (H. Phillips), 5 March 1798 sqq. (drawings not specified); …; collection Edward Vernon Utterson (1775/76-1856), London (L. 909); ? his sale, London (Christie’s), 24 February 1857 sqq., possibly no. 541, as Rembrandt; …; collection Francis Abbott (1801-93), Edinburgh;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Comte Louis-François de Robiano et al., Amsterdam (A.W.M. Mensing), 15 June 1926 sqq., no. 424; the collector’s mark (L. 970) mentioned in the sale catalogue text is no longer present and may have been on a former mount.} his sale, Edinburgh (Dowell), 22 January 1894 sqq., no. 371, as Rembrandt, £ 12.12.0;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Comte Louis-François de Robiano (1785-1855, Brussels) et al., Amsterdam (A.W.M. Mensing), 15 June 1926 sqq., no. 424, as Rembrandt, fl. 2,600, to the dealer E.J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Léonardus Nardus (1868-1955), New York, Paris and Tunisia;{Note RMA.} …; with the dealer J. Walter, Kasteel Heijen, Gennep, by 1962;{Delft 1962, unpag., repr.} from whom, as school of Rembrandt, fl. 5,000, to the museum (L. 2228), 1963

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