The Marriage of Tobias and Sara

The Marriage of Tobias and Sara

RP-T-1964-44

Ontwerp voor een wandtapijt.

draftsman (artist): Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I), Southern Netherlands

1540 - 1545

pen en penseel in bruin

height 73 mm x width 110 mm

purchase 2023-04-03

Public domain

…; collection Arthur Feldmann (eighteen hundred seventy-seven - nineteen hundred forty-one) (1877-1941), Brno, Czechoslovakia, in or before nineteen hundred thirty-nine (1939); from whom confiscated by the Gestapo, fifteen March nineteen hundred thirty-nine; …; sale, London (Christie’s), sixteen October nineteen hundred forty-six, number forty-two (42), with another former Feldmann drawing (Goltzius, standing woman with veil), to (possibly Alfred) Scharff; … ; sale, Tableaux, dessins, estampes de maîtres anciens, meubles, objets d'art: collections de feu M.M. dr. Max J. Friedländer et al, Amsterdam (Paul Brandt), seventeen March nineteen hundred fifty-nine, number twenty-two (22), eight hundred and nine Dutch Guilders and forty cents (ƒ 809.40), with five (5) other drawings, to the museum; restituted to the Feldmann heirs, two thousand and twenty-three (2023); from whom purchased by the museum, in two thousand and twenty-three (2023).

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Veilingcatalogus Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 17 maart 1959, lotnummer 22.
• Piotr Borusowski, 'Estera przed Aswerusem - projekt tapiserii Pietera Coecke'a van Aelsta/ Esther before Ahasuerus : A Design for a Tapestry by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.', Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie/ Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw 38 (2013) nr. 2, p. 314, 330-331, fig. 7.
• Stijn Alsteens, 'The Drawings of Pieter Coecke van Aelst', Master Drawings 52 (2014) nr. 3, p. 313, 336, fig. 50, nr. A38.

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