The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, 1634

Not on View

Medium

etching, burin and drypoint

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 44, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.7094

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Cortland Field Bishop (Lugt 2770b); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b), purchased from the Cortland Field Bishop Sale, 1935; given to the National Gallery of Art, 1943

Associated Names

Bishop, Cortland Field
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1946: The Life of Christ as Depicted in the Etchings of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no cat.

1956: Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 5.

1956: The Life of Christ in Prints, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956-1957, no cat.

1957: The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.

1961: University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 1961.

1966: Rembrandt, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967.

1969: Prints and Illuminations for the Christmas Season, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969-1970, no catalogue.

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. 40, 43, repro.

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

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

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.