Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban?)

1641

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

This is an image of three figures in detailed attire standing near an architectural structure. The figures are engaged in conversation, with one figure in the background observing. The setting includes an elaborate building with arches and columns. A small dog is included, and there is foliage around the structure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7262

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 118, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 39.

1958

  • Magnifying the Bible through Art, Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, TN, 1958.

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. 190, state i/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65024867

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