The Great Jewish Bride

1635

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint and burin on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 22.1 × 16.9 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7098

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 340, State v/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kungliga Museum (Royal Museum), Stockholm (Lugt 1638); transferred to Nationalmuseum, Stockholm in 1866; sold by Nationalmuseum of Stockholm as a duplicate (Lugt 4967); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art, 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930.

  • Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1932

  • Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.

1956

  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1956-1957.

1961

  • Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.

1973

  • Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1973, no catalogue.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, National Gallery Art, Washington, DC, 1990-1991, no. 16, repro.

2025

  • The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2025-2026, no cat. number, no repro.

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.16.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 154, state v/v.

2025

  • Rapoport, Abigail, Frederick, Michele L., Silver, Larry, Sargent, Antwaun, Wilson, Fred. The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, and Jewish Museum, New York: 2025, no cat. no.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower left: R / 1635 [in reverse]; verso: at lower center in graphite in later hand: B 340

Markings

recto: stamped in blue ink at top left and bottom left corners: Kungliga Museum, Stockholm (Lugt 1638); verso: Nationalmuseum Dublett (Lugt 4967); Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65024514

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