Tobias and the Angel with the Fish

attributed to Willem Drost, c. 1650 - c. 1655

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1889-A-2053
  • Dimensionsheight 218 mm x width 178 mm
  • Physical characteristicsreed pen and brown ink, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or brush, with opaque white; later additions in pen and light brown ink; framing line in light brown ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Tobias and the Angel with the Fish

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1889-A-2053

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    Benesch 573

Creation

  • Creation

    • draftsman (artist): attributed to Willem Drost, Amsterdam
    • draftsman (artist): Rembrandt van Rijn (possibly) [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    c. 1650 - c. 1655

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    reed pen and brown ink, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or brush, with opaque white; later additions in pen and light brown ink; framing line in light brown ink

  • Dimensions

    height 218 mm x width 178 mm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1889

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78), Amsterdam (L. 1450); his widow, Abrahamina Henrietta de Vos-Wurfbain (1808-83), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 424, as Rembrandt, with fifteen other drawings, fl. 480 for all, to the dealer J.H. Balfoort for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1883; from whom, as Rembrandt, fl. 5,049, with 166 other drawings, to the museum (L. 2228), 1889

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