Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa
1648
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, with touches of drypoint, on European (white) paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 14.1 × 17.8 cm (5 9/16 × 7 in.)
sheet: 14.5 × 18 cm (5 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.7128
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 112, State i/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Barnard [died 1784], London (Lugt 1419); Alfred Hubert [1831-c. 1908], Paris (Lugt 130); William Edwards [died 1821], London (Lugt 2616); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b), purchased from William Schab, 1940; given to the National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1947
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 21.
1958
Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt from the Rosenwald and Widener Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.
1961
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.
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. 92, 66.
1973
Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no catalogue.
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1977, no. 21.
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. 241, state i/v.
Wikidata ID
Q65024583