Sheet of Studies of Ten Sheep

Sheet of Studies of Ten Sheep

RP-T-1989-97

draftsman (artist): possibly copy after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

after 1654 - after 1655

black chalk; framing line in brown ink

height 167 mm x width 285 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting and the Ster Holding BV

purchase 1989

Public domain

…; sale, Leendert Dupper (1799-1870, Dordrecht), Dordrecht (C.S. Roos et al.), 28 June 1870 _sqq_., no. 41, with two other drawings, fl. 21, to Barthold Suermondt (1818-87), Aachen;{Copy RKD.} by whom donated to Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), The Hague;{According to Carel Vosmaer’s inventory book in the archive of the Vosmaer family, as quoted by Schapelhouman in J.F. Heijbroek (ed.), _De verzameling van mr. Carel Vosmaer (1826-1888)_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksprentenkabinet) 1989, p. 61.} his son, Prof. Dr Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer (1854-1916), Leiden;{Note RMA.} his son, Carel Johannes Jacob Gualtherus Vosmaer (1907-86), Leiden;{Note RMA.} from whose heirs, with 212 other drawings, fl. 650,000, to the museum (L. 2228), with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum Stichting and De Ster Holding B.V., 1989 

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