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Rembrandt van Rijn

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves (The Three Crosses), 1653

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on vellum

Dimensions

plate: 37.2 x 42.8 cm (14 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.)

sheet: 37.8 x 44.1 cm (14 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 78, State i/v

Accession Number

1949.1.50

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

none

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: John MacGowan (Lugt 1496)

Provenance

John MacGowan [died 1803], Edinburgh (Lugt 1496); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1930 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.
MacGowan, John

Exhibition History

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 55, 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. 49a, 52-53, repro.

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as The Three Crosses, 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.

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 320, repro.