Virgin and Child in the Clouds, 1641

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16.6 x 10.7 cm (6 9/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

sheet: 18 x 11.9 cm (7 1/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 61, State only

Accession Number

1998.25.3

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Duc d'Arenberg (Lugt 567) (possibly his sale, London, Christie's, 17 July 1902, lot 52); Dr. Friedrich A. Lieberg (Lugt undesc) (sale Bern, Kornfeld and Klipstein, 21 June 1979, lot 30); Joseph R. Ritman (his sale, London, Sotheby's, lot 34, not sold); purchased by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

Exhibition History

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 188, i/ii.