Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
Attributed to Abraham van Dijck (Amsterdam 1635/36-1680 Dordrecht)
Lot 174

Attributed to Abraham van Dijck (Amsterdam 1635/36-1680 Dordrecht)

The Holy Family

Closed10 December 2014

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Attributed to Abraham van Dijck (Amsterdam 1635/36-1680 Dordrecht)
The Holy Family
with inscription 'Rembrandt'
pen and brown ink, brown and pink wash
5 x 7¼ in. (13 x 18.4 cm.)

Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913) (L. 1433 in gold).
John Malcolm (1805-1893), his catalogue no. 767 (as Rembrandt); and thence by descent to his son-in-law
The Hon. Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (1845-1918);
Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy (1878-1972);
The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 May 1976, lot 13.

Specialist note

In the 1976 catalogue similarities in composition were noted between the present work and Rembrandt's drawing of the same subject in the British Museum (Benesch 516). It was identified as the work of a pupil active in Rembrandt's studio in the 1640s and, on stylistic grounds, an attribution to Abraham van Dijck seems very plausible.