The Good Samaritan

Prints and Drawings

c. 1650

School of Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Title: The Good Samaritan
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1645–1655
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in brown ink: "charité du samaritain"; lower right, in brown ink: "168"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "P18"; lower margin, center: "Renesse? / "J8o 3"; lower right, in graphite: illegible
Dimensions: 19.4 × 24.4 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1927.5188
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 64, 66 (ill.), 310, 334, cat. 16, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris [inscription (Lugt 3612), recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink]. 15th Earl of Shrewsbury (1753–1827), Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England [Deering collection records]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516) verso, lower right, in blue]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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