Lot 654: Philips Koninck (Amsterdam 1619-1688)

The Presentation in the Temple pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), watermark Arms of Amsterdam 145 x 136 mm. PROVENANCE Sir Charles Howard Hodges. With The Goodman Walker Gallery, Boston. Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 November 1983, lot 231 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-108). LITERATURE H. Gerson, Philips Koninck, Berlin, 1935, pp. 80 and 152, no.Z145. W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1982, 6, no. 1449x. NOTES Both Professor Sumowski and Wilhelm Gerson place the present drawing among Koninck's later work. Professor Sumowski further suggests that the sheet can be related to the Lamentation datable to 1671 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, W. Sumowski, op. cit., no. 1354. This relationship can be seen particularly in the sharp angularity of line which defines the figures. The composition is derived from a drawing by Rembrandt belonging to Atherton Curtis, Paris, O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, V, no. 986.