Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House, 1648

Not on View

Medium

etching, engraving, and drypoint

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.6 x 12.9 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 176, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.7130

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Ernst Theofore Rodenacker (Lugt 2438); Henry Study Theobold (Lugt 1375); George M. La Monte [1863-1927], Bound Brook, NJ (Lugt 1181c); (his sale, by the American Art Association, New York, 4 April 1928, no. 180); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

La Monte, George M.
Rodenacker, Ernst Theodor
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Theobald, Henry Studdy

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.

1945: Postcard Prints of the National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945-1946, no catalogue.

1966: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

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. 91, 66 (incorrectly identified as accession number B-9493 in catalogue).

1996: Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

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. 243, state i/v.