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Rembrandt van Rijn

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

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 39 x 45.5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1943.3.7174

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: at lower left, in red ink, in later hand: A M (Alfred Morrison, Lugt 144); at lower left, in brown ink, in later hand: 1813 W E (William Esdaile, Lugt 2617) D80 N 17 Imp- From a different plate.; at lower center, in graphite, in later hand: B. 78 Les Trois Croix

Provenance

William Esdaile (Lugt 2617); Alfred Morrison (Lugt 144); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from E. Stetson Crawford; given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Esdaile, William
Morrison, Alfred
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1953: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.

1956: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1956-1957.

1956: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

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

1961: Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.

1961: University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 1961.

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 59, 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. 49b, 52-53, repro.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 83, repro.

1992: Lessing Rosenwald: An Exemplary Collector, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, 1992.

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

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

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.