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Rembrandt van Rijn

The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers, c. 1653

Not on View

Medium

etching, burin and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 21.4 × 28.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 56, State iv/vii

Accession Number

1951.10.476

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Hercules Seghers (artist) Dutch, c. 1590 - c. 1638

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Inscription

verso: at center, in red pencil: N 904 [crossed out]

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Collection D'Arenberg (Lugt 567)

Provenance

Verstolk van Soelen (Lugt 1847); Moriz de Fries (Lugt 2930); Collection D'Arenberg (Lugt 567); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from William Schab 1951; given to the National Gallery of Art 1951

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Verstolk van Soelen, Baron Johan Gijsbert

Exhibition History

1956: Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 33.

1969: Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 52, 54, repro.

1990: Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 40b, repro.

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.

1990: Schneider, Cynthia P. Rembrandt's Landscapes: Prints and Drawings. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: no. 40b.