Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple
1659
Etching, engraving and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper.
180 x 215 mm
RvR 151
NHD number
NHD 312, IV
Notes
Watermark: None.
Acts 3:1-8.
The right foreground has been heavily worked and darkened with drypoint. Rework in drypoint on the columns supporting the canopy on the left and cross-hatching added to the arch in the left foreground so that it now reaches down to the level of the capitals. The sky is accidentally covered with long curving scratches. (White and Boon)
Acts 3:1-8.
The right foreground has been heavily worked and darkened with drypoint. Rework in drypoint on the columns supporting the canopy on the left and cross-hatching added to the arch in the left foreground so that it now reaches down to the level of the capitals. The sky is accidentally covered with long curving scratches. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f. 1659.".
Provenance
Alexandre-Pierre-Franȯis Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Thomas Garle; his sale, London, 24 May 1862; Henry Brodhurst (ca.1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1902); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Associated names
Brodhurst, Henry, active 1849-1872, former owner.
Garle, Thomas, 19th cent., former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F., 1778-1864, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Garle, Thomas, 19th cent., former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F., 1778-1864, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
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