Jacob's Ladder, 1655

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series Title

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

Medium

etching and drypoint

Dimensions

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

sheet: 11 × 7.2 cm (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2002.98.55

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655; on verso, top center, in graphite, by a later hand: 31; center, in brown ink, by a later hand: 36 [upside down]; lower center, in brown crayon, by later hand: N 36 [upside down]; lower center, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible graphite notation]; bottom center, below collector's stamp, in graphite by a later hand: RXXX

Provenance

Jacob Kainen [1909-2001], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4738); gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob

Exhibition History

2002: An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003.

Bibliography

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.