Christ before Pilate: Large Plate

1636

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 55.2 x 44.9 cm (21 3/4 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7175

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 77, State ii/v


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Jane Morgan [d. 1885], New York (Lugt 1879); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); 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.

1946

  • The Life of Christ as Depicted in the Etchings of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no cat.

1958

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

1977

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

2006

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

2008

  • Rembrandt, History Painter, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2008-2009.

2011

  • Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2011-2012, no. 17A.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q65024683


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