Woman with the Arrow

1661

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and burin on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.4 × 12.5 cm (8 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.9 × 12.8 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1944.2.62

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 202, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Edward Astley [1729-1802], Norfolk (Lugt 2774); Pierre Remy [active 1749-1787], Paris (Lugt 2173); William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); Otto [1848-1935], Berlin (Lugt 2785); Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq [1818-1882], Paris (Lugt 1336); Harris Whittemore [1965-1927], Naugatuck, CT (Lugt 1384a); (Richard Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased 1943 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); gift to the NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, 1950, no. 85, repro.

1952

  • 100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952, no cat.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.

1955

  • Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no cat.

1958

  • Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt from the Rosenwald and Widener Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.

1966

  • Etchings by Rembrandt in the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 180, 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. 57, 60-61, repro.

  • Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 116, repro.

1973

  • Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no cat.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 14, 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.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 313, state ii/iii.

Inscriptions

recto, lover right margin, in brown ink: 194

Wikidata ID

Q65024919

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