Abraham Entertaining the Angels [recto]
1656
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etched copper plate with drypoint
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Credit Line
Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann and Patrons' Permanent Fund
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Dimensions
overall: 16.2 x 13.3 cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1997.85.1.a
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 29, State (copper plate)
Associated Artworks
River Landscape with Villages and Travelers [verso]
Anonymous Artist
1675
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Antique shop, Yorkshire; sold 1946 to private collection, England;[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26-27 June 1997, no. 94); purchased by NGA.
[1] The copper plate was presumed to have been lost after Rembrandt's death in 1669, but was apparently acquired by a 17th century Antwerp artist, perhaps Peeter Gysels or another artist in his circle, who painted the river landscape scene on the back of the plate.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997-1998, no. 7.
1998
Komenecky, Michael, Isabel Horovitz, and Nicholas Eastaugh. "Antwerp Artists and the Practice of Painting on Copper." Painting Techniques, History, Materials and Studio Practice. Contributions to the Dublin Congress (7-11 Sept. 1998): 137-138.
Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1525-1775, Phoenix Art Museum; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1998-1999, no. 73, repro.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2017
Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels, The Frick Collection, New York, 2017.
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.
1998
McLellan, Diana. "Really Big Shows." Washingtonian 33, no. 11 (August 1998): 70.
2005
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 117-119, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower right in reverse: Rembrandt f. 1656
Wikidata ID
Q63571264