DrawingsDutch17th century

Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well

c. 1650-1655

Artists

Willem DrostArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite at right, some ruled, and in black chalk at bottom

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17 x 23.6 cm (6 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Unidentified collector (illegible fragment of blue or black stamp, lower right). Adolph von Beckerath, Berlin. Count Gregori Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome (L. 550, verso, lower left). [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig.] Dr. C. Gaa, Mannheim (L. 538a, verso, lower center), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 55 (as Ferdinand Bol)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, lot 379 (as Rembrandt School)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 28 April 1939, lot 342, repr. pl. 33 (as Circle of Rembrandt)]. Ernst Jürgen Otto, Celle (L. 873b, verso, lower center), sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1960], sold; to [Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1989 (L. 3306, verso, lower center). The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1999.136.

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