'Susanna Bathing, after a Rembrandt Follower', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Susanna Bathing, after a Rembrandt Follower

From Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 128 x 114 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04355

Turner Bequest LXXII 61

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 61 Recto:

Susanna Bathing, after a Rembrandt Follower 1802

D04355
Turner Bequest LXXII 61

Pencil, with white chalk, and some scratching out, on white wove paper prepared with a reddish grey wash, 128 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘61’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–61’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

With the Good Samaritan copied on folio 59 verso of this sketchbook (D04352), this picture (Mauritshuis, The Hague) is no longer accepted as Rembrandt’s own work although it was sufficiently admired to be removed by the French from Holland in 1795 and displayed in the Louvre until 1815 when it was returned to The Hague. Kitson found it ‘comforting’ that Turner commented on both pictures only briefly compared to his more rigorous analysis of Tobias and the Angel on folio 60 verso (D04354).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.