Tobias Disemboweling the Fish
Framed: 17 × 21 × 1 1/4 inches (43.18 × 53.34 × 3.18 cm)
Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 2-September 18, 1983, no. 57, as Tobias Taketh the Fish from the River Tigris.
The Age of Rembrandt, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, August 1-September 27, 1992, no cat.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 26, as Tobias Disemboweling the Fish.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Tobias Disemboweling the Fish.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat.
Unknown collector with mark of cursive D (not in Lugt) on the verso, bottom left corner;
Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, RI [1];
Wilhelm Reinhold Otto Valentiner (1880-1958), Raleigh, NC;
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), Bally, PA;
Purchased from Harry Bertoia by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] Lugt 1880
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, vol. 3, The Middle Period, 1640-1650 (London: Phaidon, 1955), no. 582, p. 164, (repro.), as Tobias Disembowelling [sic] the Fish, with the Angel.
Ross E. Taggart, “Three Drawings by Rembrandt,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 1961): 1-4, (repro.), as Tobias Disemboweling the Fish.
n.a., “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: April-June, 1961,” The Art Quarterly 24, no. 3 (Autumn 1961): 304, (repro.), as Tobias Disemboweling the Fish.
Denys Sutton, “Editorial: The Colonel’s Gift,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 472, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 182, (repro.), as Scene from the Life of Tobias and the Angel.
Ross E. Taggart and Roger Ward, Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 16, 38, (repro.), as Tobias Taketh the Fish from the River Tigris.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 11, 100-02, (repro.), as Tobias Disemboweling the Fish.
