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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam
Joseph Telling His Dreams (2nd State), 1638
Etching
111 x 84 mm.; 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches
Provenance:
J. Camesina de Pomal (Lugt 429)
A. Artaria (Lugt 33)
Biörklund (Lugt 1138c)
S. William Pelletier (with his mark)
Reference:
Bartsch/Hollstein 37
Hind 160
Biörklund/Barnard 38-E
Notes:
1. A very fine, early impression of the 2nd State (of three states), with burr lower left and on the spine of the book.
2. The biblical reference here is from Genesis XXXVII, 1-11, in which Joseph tells his brothers of his dreams:
...Listen to this dream I had. There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheath rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheave and bowed down to it...I had another dream...this time, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me...Exasperated with Joseph’s "dreams", Joseph’s brothers eventually sold him to the Ishmaelites.
3. The collector’s mark on this work of Josef Camesina de Pomal (1765-1827) is of particular interest. Camesina de Pomal was from Vienna, was a major collector of prints and drawings and appears to have been the father of the Viennese historian Albert Ritter von Camesina. After his death in 1827, Camesina de Pomal’s extensive collection was sold in Vienna by the dealers Artaria (whose collector’s mark is also found on this work) in a series of four auctions between 1831 and 1833. In his description, Lugt (Frits Lugt Marques de Collections : Dessins-Estampe Amsterdam, 1922 ) makes special mention of Camesina de Pomal’s Rembrandt etchings (including the present one) which were offered in Artaria’s auctions of October, 1832 and April, 1833.