The Circumcision: Small Plate
c. 1630
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Rembrandt van Rijn
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and touches of drypoint
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Credit Line
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Accession Number
1943.3.7062
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 48, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Duke of Buckingham; Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); 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.
1946
The Life of Christ as Depicted in the Etchings of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no cat.
1956
The Life of Christ in Prints, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956-1957, no cat.
1957
The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.
1961
University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 1961.
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, 1961-1962.
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. 55, only.
Wikidata ID
Q65024443