Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves (The Three Crosses)
1653
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
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Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to platemark): 38.9 × 45.5 cm (15 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.9115
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 78, State iii/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Johann Andreas Boerner; Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased at the Boerner Sale (lot #593) 1929; 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.
1935
Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and his Circle, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1935-1936, no. 96, repro.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 82, repro.
1987
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.
2001
The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as The Three Crosses, repro.
2004
The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.
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.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, at bottom center: Rembrandt. f. 1653.
Wikidata ID
Q60761193