Christ Preaching (La petite Tombe)

c. 1652

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.4 x 20.7 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 15.9 x 21.1 cm (6 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1955.6.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 67, State only


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1961

  • Rembrandt Etchings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961, 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.

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. 45, 48, repro.

1972

  • Rembrandt, Master Etcher: A Study Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, 1972., no. 27.

  • Rare Etchings by G.B. and G.D. Tiepolo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1972, not in cat.

1973

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

1977

  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections [complementary installation], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1977.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

2006

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

2011

  • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2011-2012, no. 53A.

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

  • Allelu!: Judson Bible Series (December 1993-January, February 1994): 55.

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 298, i/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65364809


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