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Tobias and the Angel Encountering the Fish
mid-17th century
Jacques Rousseau
1630 - 1693
French
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper
Sheet: 9 × 7 3/4 inches (22.9 × 19.7 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR285
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Provenance
October 30, 1833, Jacob de Vos (Amsterdam, Netherlands) sale, Omslag U [no. 4, as Herman Swanevelt]
Samuel Woodburn (London,England)
E. Esdaile, London [collector's mark [L. 816] with pen and brown ink on verso at bottom]
June 18, 1840, sale, (Christie's, London,England) [under no. 929]
Frederick Keppel (New York, New York, USA)
1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 44-45, no. 20 (ill.).
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Jacques Rousseau, Tobias and the Angel Encountering the Fish, mid-17th century, pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR285.
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