View of Amsterdam from the Northwest

c. 1640

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.3 × 15.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.8 × 15.8 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7107

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 210, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marsden Jasael Perry (Lugt 1880); 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.

1956

  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1956-1957.

1961

  • Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.

1962

  • Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1966

  • Rembrandt, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967.

1967

  • Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1967-1968, no cat.

1969

  • Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 80, 65.

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

2006

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

2018

  • Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2018, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1923

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993-, no. 176, ii/ii.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

Wikidata ID

Q65024538

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