The Star of the Kings: A Night Piece

c.1651

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Rembrandt van Rijn

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.5 x 14.3 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 9.9 x 14.7 cm (3 7/8 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.589

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 113, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 14, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923: no. 254

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969: no. 113

Wikidata ID

Q76557253

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