Jacob's Ladder
1655
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 10.6 × 7 cm (4 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
sheet: 11 × 7.2 cm (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2002.98.55
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 36, State B iii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jacob Kainen [1909-2001], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4738); gift to NGA, 2002.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003.
Bibliography
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. 288b, iii/iv.
Inscriptions
in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655; on verso, top center, in graphite, by a later hand: 31; center, in brown ink, by a later hand: 36 [upside down]; lower center, in brown crayon, by later hand: N 36 [upside down]; lower center, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible graphite notation]; bottom center, below collector's stamp, in graphite by a later hand: RXXX
Wikidata ID
Q76355773