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Rembrandt van Rijn

Jacob's Ladder, 1655

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series Title

Illustration to Menasseh ben Israel's "Piedra Gloriosa o de la Estatua de Nebuchadnesar"

Medium

etching, burin and drypoint

Dimensions

image: 10.6 × 7 cm (4 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
plate: 11.7 × 7.2 cm (4 5/8 × 2 13/16 in.)

sheet: 12.4 × 7.9 cm (4 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 36, State B iii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.7211

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655; on verso: [scattered offset letterpress text]; lower center, in graphite, by a later hand: B 36. III/c / 4th [?] / cut plate / c.13967

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1930: Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

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.

1953: Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 76.

1961: Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinatti, OH, 1961-1962.

1965: The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.

1967: The Book of Genesis: Master Prints, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, 1967-1968.

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. 288b, iii/iv.