Plate 13 of 50

Nathan Admonishing David

Nathan vor David

Rembrandt

In a museum

The drawing

Nathan confronts the seated King David over his actions toward Bathsheba and Uriah. David appears frail and remorseful as the prophet gently reaches toward him, emphasizing repentance rather than royal authority.

Becker, 1922

As Felix Becker published it in 1922.

Attribution: Rembrandt van Rijn
Title as printed: Nathan vor David
Title in English: Nathan Admonishing David
Date: c. 1640–45
Medium and size: Pen and brown ink, heightened with white, about 18.5 × 25 cm
Collection in 1922: Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena

Today

Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.

Status: In a museum
Where is it now?: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29.100.934 (H. O. Havemeyer bequest, 1929). The Met dates it c. 1650–55; Becker had c. 1640–45.
Attribution today: Rembrandt van Rijn (Benesch 948)
Date: c. 1650–55
Medium: Pen and brown ink, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions: 18.6 × 25.4 cm (7 5/16 × 10 in.)
Provenance: Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena (Becker 1922); H. O. Havemeyer Collection; bequeathed by Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer to the Met, 1929.

The sheet in this copy

Full sheet, this copy — plate 13 — Full sheet, this copy

Printed caption, this copy — plate 13 — Printed caption, this copy

Sources

Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 13.
The Metropolitan Museum of Arthttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/347895
Metropolitan Museum of Art Resourceshttps://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/Dutch_Drawings_of_the_Seventeenth_Century_in_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_Bulletin_v_42_no_4_Spring_1985.pdf