Jacob's Ladder
1655
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, burin and drypoint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 10.6 × 7 cm (4 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
plate: 11.7 × 7.2 cm (4 5/8 × 2 13/16 in.)
sheet: 12.4 × 7.9 cm (4 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.7211
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 36, State B iii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
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.
1953
Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 76.
1961
Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinatti, OH, 1961-1962.
1965
The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.
1967
The Book of Genesis: Master Prints, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, 1967-1968.
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. 288b, iii/iv.
Inscriptions
in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655; on verso: [scattered offset letterpress text]; lower center, in graphite, by a later hand: B 36. III/c / 4th [?] / cut plate / c.13967
Wikidata ID
Q65024761