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Christ Before Pilate: Large Plate

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Christ Before Pilate: Large Plate

1635
Etching and engraving on paper.
549 x 447 mm
RvR 120
NHD number
NHD 155, II
Notes
Luke 23:13-25 and John 19:8-16.
The center of the plate completed. Numerous additions throughout the plate for the most part following the touched impressions of the first state in The British Museum, London. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in bottom margin, "Rembrandt f. 1636 cum privile." (R.253)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "4" and letters "WR", (Strasbourg lily).
Provenance

Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), London and Fonthill; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morrison, Alfred, 1821-1897, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School