The Blindness of Tobit: the Larger Plate

1651

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with touches of drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.2 x 12.9 cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 16.5 x 13.2 cm (6 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7119

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 42, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Johann Andreas Boerner; Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b), purchased at the Boerner Sale in Leipzig, 1929. lot #573; given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 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.

1966

  • Master Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967, no cat.

1977

  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (not included in tour), 1977.

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 265, i/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65024572

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