The Holy Family, c. 1632

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.5 x 7.2 cm (3 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.)

sheet: 9.8 x 7.5 cm (3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 62, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.7083

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right plate: R.; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 62 / C.18125 / .53; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 2450 / -on / 977654; by later hand, lower center verso in brown pencil and crossed out: 62089.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B.62

Provenance

Graphische Sammlung, Munich (Lugt 1614 and 2397); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 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.

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

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. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 114, only.