Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, the Sons of Joseph

Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, the Sons of Joseph

RP-T-1905-263

Schatborn 75

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Jan Victors, Amsterdam
• draftsman (artist): Rembrandt van Rijn [rejected attribution]

c. 1635 - c. 1640

pen and brown ink

height 107 mm x width 113 mm

Gift of D. Schweisgutt, Beaumont-sur-Oise

gift 1905

Public domain

…; unidentified collection (L. 1842); …; collection Richard Cosway (1742-1821), London (L. 629); his sale, London (Stanley), 14 (16) February 1822 sqq., no. 505, as Rembrandt (‘A pen and ink drawing, Blessing Joseph’s Children’), with one other drawing; …; collection Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (L. 2445); ? from whom purchased, through the mediation of the dealer S. Woodburn, by William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (L. 2617), 1835;{According to L. 2445; and an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, London (Christie’s), 17 June 1840, no. 52, as Rembrandt (‘Jacob blessing the children of Joseph, who is addressing his father’), £ 0.5.0, to the dealer Walter Benjamin Tiffin (1795-1877), London;{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} …; sale, Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913, London) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 20 November 1882 sqq., no. 170, as Rembrandt, fl. 14, to Jozef Linnig (1815-91), Antwerp;{Copy RKD.} …; donated by Dr Daniel Schweisguth (1865-1943), Beaumont-sur-Oise, to the museum (L. 2228), 1905

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