Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves (The Three Crosses)

1653

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 39 x 45.5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7174

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 78, State iv/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Esdaile (Lugt 2617); Alfred Morrison (Lugt 144); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from E. Stetson Crawford; given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

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

1955

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

1956

  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1956-1957.

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1958

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

1961

  • University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 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. 49b, 52-53, repro.

  • Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 59, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 83, repro.

1992

  • Lessing Rosenwald: An Exemplary Collector, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 1992.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as The Three Crosses, repro.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

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.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at lower left, in red ink, in later hand: A M (Alfred Morrison, Lugt 144); at lower left, in brown ink, in later hand: 1813 W E (William Esdaile, Lugt 2617) D80 N 17 Imp- From a different plate.; at lower center, in graphite, in later hand: B. 78 Les Trois Croix

Wikidata ID

Q60761193

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