National Gallery of Art · Technical Material

Abraham Entertaining the Angels [recto]

Rembrandt van Rijn

Date: 1656
Medium: etched copper plate with drypoint
Dimensions: overall: 16.2 x 13.3 cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Classification: Technical Material · Printmaking Matrices
Accession number: 1997.85.1.a
Credit line: Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Time span: 1651 to 1700
Department: CG-E

Subjects and terms

Dutch
etching
Old Testament
religious
Abraham
Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Provenance

Antique shop, Yorkshire; sold 1946 to private collection, England;[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26-27 June 1997, no. 94); purchased by NGA. [1] The copper plate was presumed to have been lost after Rembrandt's death in 1669, but was apparently acquired by a 17th century Antwerp artist, perhaps Peeter Gysels or another artist in his circle, who painted the river landscape scene on the back of the plate.

Inscription

lower right in reverse: Rembrandt f. 1656

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