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Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Abraham Entertaining the Angels

1656
Etching and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper.
159 x 131 mm
RvR 37
NHD number
NHD 295
Notes
Watermark: None.
Gen. 18:1-15.
Only one state.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f. 1656".
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; John Heywood Hawkins (1803-1877), London and Bignor Park; Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London and Dalkeith; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner.
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School