Abraham's Sacrifice

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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1655

Etching and drypoint on laid paper

Overall: 6 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (15.7 × 13.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935

PR.997.5.89

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Rembrandt f 1655 (the "d" and the "6" reversed); inscribed, on verso, in brown ink: HG / No: 39

Course History

ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012

PHIL 23, Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2013

REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2013

SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014

REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2014

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

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. 63.

Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 115.

Envisioning Jerusalem: Prints from Durer to Rembrandt, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 9-June 19, 2011.

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.

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. 91, ill. p. 68, 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, ill. p.26 and p.36, listed, p.111, no. 230.

Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p. 52, no. 115.

Hilliard Goldfarb, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988, pp. 150-151, no. 63, ill.

Rembrandt Prints in the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. cover and p. 9.

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York; lot 1028; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on February 15, 1980; given to present collection, 1997.

Catalogue Raisonne

New Hollstein (NHD) 283 only; Bartsch and Hollstein 35; Hind 283

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