The Little Jewish Bride (Saskia as St. Catherine)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1638
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Plate: 4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (10.9 × 7.8 cm)
Sheet: 4 7/16 × 3 5/16 in. (11.3 × 8.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.114
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper right: Rembrandt f. / 1638 (in reverse); inscribed, in graphite, on verso: very fine / W. Stewart's (?) Collection; stamped, on verso: collection mark of Felix Somary (not in Lugt)
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michae R. Taylor, Fall 2013
SPAN 32, Introduction to Hispanic Studies III: 20th-21st Centuries, Sara Munoz, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023
Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 20, 1988, no. 16.
Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Sara E. Trautz, Class of 2015, Mellon Special Project Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 21, 2014.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire. 29 January 2020.
Picasso: The Vollard Suite, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
Rembrandt Prints from the Weil Collection, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, April 10-May 23, 1999.
Rembrandt: Master of Light and Shadow; Etchings from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 8-September 17, 2006.
Rembrandt's Journey: Painter- Draftsman- Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, October 26, 2003-January 18, 2004; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 14-May 9, 2004, cat. no. 63.
Publication History
LaRosa, Suzanne, ed., "Rembrandt, Beyond the Brush: Master Prints from the Weil Collection", Montgomery, Alabama: The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 112 pp., Checklist no. 44, March 1999.
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.119, no. 256.
Hilliard T. Goldfarb, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988, pp. 46-47, no. 16, ill.
Etchings by Rembrandt from the Collection of Felix Somary, London: Artemis Fine Arts, 1985, no. 45, ill.
Clifford S. Ackley, "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter- Drafstman- Etcher", Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 2003, cat. no. 63, pp. 129-130 and 316..
Sara E. Trautz, Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 3.
Provenance
W. Stewart (?); sold to Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, August 7, 1936; Felix Somary, Vienna and Zurich 1891-1956; Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on November 14, 1985; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 169 only state; Bartsch and Hollstein 342; Hind 154
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