Abraham Entertaining the Angels, 1656

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on Japan paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.8 x 12.7 cm (6 1/4 x 5 in.)

sheet: 16.1 x 13 cm (6 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 52, State only

Accession Number

2005.69.1

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

on former backboard: Trés exceptionelle comme qualitésur papier du Japon et aved de trés nombreuses taches de manière noire; Monsieur Maurice Gobin, 1 rue Laffitte, Paris, 7,500 francs, 9 March 1923 (according to dealer notes)

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Maurice Gobin, Paris, 1923); de Menthon, Paris; by descent until 2004;(C. G. Boerner Ltd., London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Gobin, Maurice
de Menthon

Exhibition History

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 48.

2017: Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels, The Frick Collection, New York, 2017.

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. 295, only.