Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House

1648

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The print shows five people standing around an opening in a wall on the left. A man on the far left stands in a dark doorway, extending his left hand out. He has light skin and a long, white beard, and he wears a tall hat and a robe-like garment with a high collar. His right hand reaches into his robe. In front of him stands a group including another bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak, a woman wearing a headscarf and a full-length dress holding a basket and walking stick with a bundled child hanging from her back, and a short person with their back to us, perhaps another child, wearing a torn top hat and tunic. The woman reaches out towards the man in the doorway, and he appears to hand her something small. The background of the print is beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.6 x 12.9 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7130

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 176, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ernst Theofore Rodenacker (Lugt 2438); Henry Study Theobold (Lugt 1375); George M. La Monte [1863-1927], Bound Brook, NJ (Lugt 1181c); (his sale, by the American Art Association, New York, 4 April 1928, no. 180); 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.

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 100.

1945

  • Postcard Prints of the National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945-1946, no catalogue.

1966

  • Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1969

  • Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 91, 66 (incorrectly identified as accession number B-9493 in catalogue).

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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.

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. 243, state i/v.

Wikidata ID

Q65024591

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