Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate

1642
Etching, with touches of drypoint, on paper.
sheet: 154 x 118 mm; plate mark: 150 x 114 mm
RvR 111
NHD number
NHD 206, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
John 11:1-44.
Cf. the drawing in Museum Boymans-Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam (Benesch 518). (White and Boon)
Forehead of Lazarus unshaded, though in the earliest impressions some very faint cross-hatching can be made out, which very quickly wore away. (see R.227)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f 1642 (2 reversed)".
Provenance

Charles Scarisbrick (1801-1860), Wrightington, nr. Lancaster; Alexandre-Pierre-Franȯis Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F., 1778-1864, former owner.
Scarisbrick, Charles, 1801-1860, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School