
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams
Govaert Flinck · c. 1638
Provenance
Ownership history
- Baron Grahame; sold, Mar. 15, 1878, lot 136. Edward John Poynter (1836–1919), London [stamp (Lugt 874), recto, lower left, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 24–25, 1918, lot 281. Victor Koch, London, by 1954 [Benesch 1954]; sold to William H. Schab, New York, 1966; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, Oct. 25–Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 162 and 207 (ill.), cat. 103 (as Rembrandt); also the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 24–Apr. 5, 1970.
- Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference, Dec. 8, 2009–Feb. 28, 2010, pp. 65–67 and 252, cat. 4.2 (ill.), as Flinck.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 68 (ill.), 71, 296, cat. 19, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1954), I: 25, no. 80, fig. 84, (as Rembrandt).
- Jakob Rosenberg, "Review of O. Benesch, Drawings by Rembrandt, Vols. I and II by Otto Benesch," The Art Bulletin 38, no. 1 (March, 1956), p. 67 (as follower of Rembrandt).
- New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, "Rembrandt: Drawings from American Collections," Mar. 15-Apr. 16, 1960, under no. 4, p. 12; also Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Apr. 27-May 29, 1960 (as Rembrandt).
- Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandt-zeichnungen, II (Bad Pyrmont: 1961), p. 4, no. 80 and p. 7, under no. C 12 (as doubtfully by Rembrandt).
- William H. Schab Gallery, Great Old Master Prints and Drawings XLII (Fall 1966), pp. 144–45, cat. 167 (ill.), (as Rembrandt).
- Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, “Rembrandt as a Teacher,” in Evolution generale et developpements regioneaux en histoire de l’art, Actes du XXIIe Congrès International D’Histoire de L’art, Budapest, 1969, ed. György Rózsa (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1972), p. 107 (as Rembrandt).
- Michiel C. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum (Haarlem/ Ghent/ Doornspijk: Snoeck Ducaju & Zoon, 1997), p. 293, (as Rembrandt).
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand

Cimon and Pero
Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Paul the Apostle
Art Institute of Chicago

Expulsion of Hagar
Art Institute of Chicago

The Degradation of Haman before Ahasuerus and Esther
Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Male Nude (recto); Sketches of Hand and Boy'd Head (verso)
Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait
Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins
Art Institute of Chicago

Remembrance of Italy
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant