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Rembrandt van Rijn

Saint Francis beneath a Tree Praying, 1657

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and etching

Dimensions

plate: 18.3 x 24.3 cm (7 3/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 107, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.7156

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 49.

1958: Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt from the Rosenwald and Widener Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 104, 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. 111, 68.

1973: Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no catalogue.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 148.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 12, repro.

1988: The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 64, fig. 138.

1990: Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 44b, repro.

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

2018: Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna, NGA, 2018.

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.

1990: Schneider, Cynthia P. Rembrandt's Landscapes: Prints and Drawings. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: no. 44b.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 299, ii/ii.

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