The Triumph of Mordecai, c. 1641

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed close to plate mark): 17.2 x 21.3 cm (6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 40, State only

Accession Number

1998.25.2

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Edward Hippisley (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 May 1848, lot 137); Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London (Lugt 1227) (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1891, lot 436); Henry Studdy Theobald (born 1847), London (Lugt 1375) (his sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 12-14 May 1910, lot 590. Alfred Strölin [1871 - 1955] Paris; (liquidation sale of his property, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-28 June 1921, no. 350); Joseph R. Ritman, Amsterdam; (purchased by Sotheby's and Artemis); purchased by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Drouot, Hôtel
Haden, Francis Seymour
Hippisley, Edward
Strölin, Alfred
Theobald, Henry Studdy

Exhibition History

1877: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1877, no. 170.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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. 185, ii/iv.