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Rembrandt van Rijn

Abraham Entertaining the Angels [recto], 1656

Not on View

Medium

etched copper plate with drypoint

Dimensions

overall: 16.2 x 13.3 cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 29, State (copper plate)

Accession Number

1997.85.1.a

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

lower right in reverse: Rembrandt f. 1656

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

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Noortman Master Paintings
Private Collection, England

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997-1998, no. 7.

1998: 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.

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.

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.