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Samuel van Hoogstraten

Dordrecht 1627 - 1678 Dordrecht

The Annunciation

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, fragmentary brown ink framing lines

156 x 152mm.

Provenance

Possibly H. Van Limboch, sale, the Hague 17th September 1759, part of lot 230; M.J. Perry (born 1850); Duveen (according to Sumowski), c. 1919; W. R. Valentine, by whom loaned to North Carolina Museum of Art; Raleigh; His sale, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, 25 Oct 1932, lot 21, illustrated as S. van Hoogstraten; Guy C. Tomme, Barto, Pennsylvania; Christie’s Amsterdam, 21st November 1989, lot 10

Literature

W. Sumowski, “Drawings of the Rembrandt School”, 1981, vol 5, no 1188X

Professor Sumowski compares this drawing with “The Circumcision” at Frankfurt (Sumowski, op. cit., no. 1182X), and dates both drawings around 1649

A good copy of the sheet is in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (pen and brown ink with brown wash, 155 x 155 mm.).