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The Meeting of Christ with Martha and Mary after the Death of Lazarus
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-adad34d778fc
- Date
- c. 1662–65
- Medium
- reed pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache (in the heads of the kneeling figures)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 137153
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Scholars now consider this drawing a rare, late work by Rembrandt. Here, Christ meets with Martha and Mary after the death of their brother, Lazarus (John 11:30–36). The composed dignity of Christ's face and his calm compassion contrast with the prostrate figure of Mary and the agitated drawing of the kneeling Martha, whose outstretched hands are repeated three times, suggesting a frenzied expressivity. Above Martha, white gouache obliterates the figure of a standing man as well as a first version of Martha's head. The combination of rough power and sublime tenderness that characterizes Rembrandt's late drawing style is here demonstrated in the dramatic rendering of the sisters' grief and the sensitive portrayal of the bearded old man who dries his eyes with a kerchief at the right.
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- Edward Vernon Utterson | Private Collection, England | Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York | Edward Vernon Utterson, London (Lugt 909, lower center, in black ink). Private Collection, England (according to departmental cataloging sheet and Benesch 1973, vol. 5, p. 293, cat. no. 1068a). [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York]
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