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Rembrandt van Rijn

Faust, c. 1652

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint and burin

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.2 x 16.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 270, State i/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.9067

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Provenance

Schloss 'E'; Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) from the Berlin Sale (lot #632) 1929; given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1930: Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

1930: Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1932: Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.

1935: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1935-1936, no. 95.

1947: Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 32.

1949: Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 124-125, repro.

2000: "Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1700", The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle; The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 70.

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. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 270, state i/vii.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 124-125.

2000: Sherman, Claire Richter. Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Exh. cat. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2000, no. 70.

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