Jan Asselijn, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint and burin

Dimensions

plate: 21.7 x 17.1 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 22 x 17.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 277, State i/iii

Accession Number

1944.2.61

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Lugt 2034); Christiaan Josi (Lugt 573); Heneage Finch Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58); Walter Francis Due of Buccleuch (Lugt 402); John Heywood Hawkins (Lugt 1471); Alfred Hubert (Lugt 130); Otto Gerstenberg (Lugt 2785); Harris Whittemore (Lugt 1384a); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Richard Zinser; given to the National Gallery of Art 1944

Associated Names

Aylesford, Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of
Gerstenberg, Otto
Hubert, Alfred
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1966: Art in the Making, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1966.

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 1, repro.

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. 41, 44, repro.

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

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. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 236, state i/vii.

1995: Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1995: 268, fig. 2.