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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

Medium

etching, burin and drypoint

Dimensions

image: 10.6 × 7 cm (4 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.5 × 7.5 cm (4 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1943.3.7209

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655

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.

1947: Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 42.

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

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. 106, 68.

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, i/iv.