Moses Descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments

Moses Descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments

RP-T-1897-A-3352

draftsman (artist): Ferdinand Bol

c. 1664

black chalk, with grey wash; squared for transfer in black chalk; framing line in black ink; traces of old framing line in grey ink (lower left)

height 407 mm x width 319 mm

Voorstudie voor een schilderij.

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1897

Public domain

…; ? sale, Dirk Versteegh (1751-1822, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 3 November 1823, Album 2L, no. 57 (‘L’Esquisse d’une pièce de cheminée, pour la chambre des Echévins à l’ancien Hotel de ville d’Amsterdam, lavé à l’encre de la Chine, par Boll’), fl. 7, to the dealer A. Brondgeest, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk, Heer van Soelen en Aldenhaag (1776-1845, The Hague and Soelen, near Tiel), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 22 March 1847 sqq., Album B, no. 48 (‘Ferdinand Bol. Croquis, lavé à l’encre de la chine, du tableau représentant le proclamation de la Loi sur le mont Sinaï, qui se trouve dans la salle des échevins de la ci-devant maison de ville d’Amsterdam’), fl. 11, to the dealer C.F Roos, Amsterdam;{Copy RMA.} …; sale, Jan Hendrik Cremer (1813-85, Brussels) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 15 June 1886 sqq., no. 35, fl. 40, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2634);{Copy RMA.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 84, fl. 31, to the dealer H.J. Valk for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD; note RMA.} from whom purchased by the museum (L. 2228), 1897

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