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Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams
Govaert Flinck (Dutch, 1615-1660)
c. 1638
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 20.6 cm (6 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
For many years, this drawing was believed to be by Rembrandt. Recent efforts to distinguish Rembrandt’s drawings from those of his pupils have led scholars to reattribute this work to Govert Flinck, who studied with Rembrandt in the 1630s and later achieved great critical and financial success. Here Flinck represented a scene from the life of Joseph, the Old Testament figure whose adventures inspired many drawings, paintings, and even plays in Rembrandt’s time.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
