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Gerson first raised questions over the authenticity of this painting in 1968,1 since when various opinions have been voiced in the Rembrandt literature as to whether, and if so, to what extent, Rembrandt was involved in the production of the New York Toilet of Bathsheba.2
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Gerson 213; Br.-Gerson 513.
For a survey of the various references to the painting, including opinions expressed as to its (partial) attribution to Rembrandt, see W. Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2007, cat. 149, esp. pp. 613 and 622/23.
Exhib. cat. Rembrandt/not Rembrandt I 1995/96, p. 61.
Op. cit.3, cat. no. 10, esp. figs. 126, 127.
A. Golahny, ‘Rembrandt’s early Bathsheba: the Raphael connection’, Art Bull. 65 (1983), pp. 671–675, esp. 673.
C. Eisler, ‘Rembrandt and Bathsheba’, Essays in Northern European Art presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his sixtieth birthday, Doornspijk 1983, pp. 84–88, esp. 86.
Gerson 213 Op. cit.1
Tümpel 1986, cat. no. A1.
C. Eisler, ‘Rembrandt and Bathsheba’, Essays in Northern European Art presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his sixtieth birthday, Doornspijk 1983 Eisler, op. cit.6, p. 86.
Op. cit.3, cat. no. 10; see also E.J. Sluijter, Rembrandt and the female nude, Amsterdam 2006, pp. 345–348; Liedtke, op. cit.2.
E.J. Sluijter, Rembrandt and the female nude, Amsterdam 2006 Sluijter, op. cit.10, p. 345.
Liedtke, op. cit.2, pp. 617-618.
See also E. van de Wetering, ‘“Principaelen” and satellites’ in Rembrandt? The master and his workshop, exhib.cat. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2006, pp. 106–122; M. Franken, «Learning by imitation: copying paintings in Rembrandt’s workshop», in: exhib. cat. Rembrandt. Quest of a genius, Amsterdam/Berlin 2006, pp. 153–177.
S. van Hoogstraeten, Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, Rotterdam 1678, pp. 192–193.
B.P.J. Broos, ‘Rembrandt and Lastman’s Coriolanus: the history piece in 17th-century theory and practice’, Simiolus 8 (1976), pp. 199–228.
1 A. Golahny, ‘Rembrandt’s early Bathsheba: the Raphael connection’, Art Bull. 65 (1983) Golahny, op. cit.5, esp. p. 674.
Sumowski Gemälde I, p. 87 note 58.
Sumowski Gemälde VI, no. 2503 as Rembrandt school.
G. Knuttel, ‘On the Bathseba of Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum, New York’, Actes du XVIIme Congrès International d’Histoire de l’Art. Amsterdam 23–31 juillet 1952, The Hague 1955, pp. 421–424.
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon II, Vienna/Leipzig 1910, p. 446.
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Van De Wetering, E. (2011). Pupil of Rembrandt with intervention by Rembrandt — The toilet of Bathsheba (free variant after V 1). In: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5786-1_7
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