Abraham's Sacrifice
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
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
Research Area
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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