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Joseph and Potiphar's wife
Printmaker:
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Printmaker:
Unknown
(Reworked)
Bedroom scene with a male figure (Joseph) dragging a semi-naked woman (Potiphar's wife) from a bed with drapes and posts and a pattered and fringed bedspread pulled back at the foot. The woman clings onto him trying to pull him towards her, A chamber pot is underneath the bed near the man's left foot.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
17th Century#
Production date:
AD 1634
Posthumous impression, after fine mechanical parallel shading was added with a mezzotint rocker to most shadowy areas, not by Rembrandt.
Support
composed of
Oriental paper
( extremely thin laid paper; Chinese?; chainlines vertical (17/18mm))
Image
Height 91 mm
Width 114 mm
Sheet
Height 92 mm
Width 117 mm
Inscription present: Lugt 932
Accession number: 23.K.5-49
Primary reference Number: 48135
New Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 128 II/IV
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): B39 II/II
Biörklund/Barnard: BB34-G II/II
Old location number: 38.5.4a
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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