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Rembrandt van Rijn

The Adoration of the Shepherds: a Night Piece, c. 1652

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint and burin on japan paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 46, State vii/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.7118

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Provenance

Joseph von Camesina [d. 1827], Vienna (Lugt 429); August Artaria [1807-1893], Vienna (Lugt 33); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 948; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Artaria, August
Camesina, Joseph von
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.

1946: The Christmas Story in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946-1947, no catalogue.

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

1947: Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 29.

1957: Christmas Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, 1957, no catalogue.

1961: Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.

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

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 39, repro.

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. 98, 67.

1973: Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no catalogue.

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.

1991: Martz, Louis L. From Renaissance to Baroque: Essays on Literature and Art. Columbia, Missouri, 1991: fig. 14.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 300, vii/xi.