Pen and ink drawing in brown over black and red chalk, brown wash as well as partly white-hightened
On firm laid paper. 22 x 17,7 cm (8,6 x 6,9 in), the full sheet
Since Cornelis Ploos van Amstel up until the late 19th century this work had been considered to be a work by Rembrandt. [CM].

PROVENANCE: Presumably Valerius Röver. In his hand-written inventory in the Amsterdam university library, this work is listed in portfolio 8, no. 272 2 still under the right ascription "Hoogstraten", a drawing with the title "Simeon in den tempel" (see C.G. Boerner cat. "Aus unseren Mappen", III drawings, fall 1977).
Collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (with inscription on verso, Lugt 3003).
Auction Amsterdam, 3 March 1800, portfolio G 20 (as Rembrandt).
Johann Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (with number "N4090" on verso, Lugt 2987).
Collection J.A. Jolles, Amsterdam. Auction Amsterdam, 27 November 1848, no. 199 (as Rembrandt).
Collection Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (with collector's stamp on verso, Lugt 1450). Auction Amsterdam, 22 - 24 May 1883, no. 372.
Collection Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, London.
Sotheby's London, 15 February 1921, Nr. 83.
Collection Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (with collector's stamp on verso, Lugt 1272).
Sotheby's Amsterdam, 17/18 November 1975, 253, pp. 210, 211, no. 159 (with illu. in colors).
C.G. Boerner art shop, Düsseldorf 1977.
There acquired by presenrt owner.

EXHIBITION: Catalogus van de Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1929, p. 59, no. 220.
Bernard Houthakker - Dessins Anciens, Amsterdam 1952, no. 42.
De Verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1964, p. 20, no. 41.

LITERATURE: Carl Vosmaer: Rembrandt - sa vie et ses œuvres, 2nd edition, La Haye 1877, p. 559 (there as Rembrandt).