id:			153392
accession number:	1986.77
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.77
updated:		2023-08-23 22:58:23.087000

The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight, 1654. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching and drypoint; sheet: 22.2 x 17.2 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.); platemark: 20.9 x 16.1 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1986.77

title:				The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight
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creation date:			1654
creation date earliest:		1654
creation date latest:		1654
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Netherlands, 17th century
technique:	etching and drypoint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 83 (XVIII.46)

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CREATORS

* Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 22.2 x 17.2 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.); Platemark: 20.9 x 16.1 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
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	description:	beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower left, in plate: Rembrandt f. 1654['a' reversed] ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: Casimir Perier sale 11-98 ; lower left, in graphite: [\+ ; lower center, in pen and brown ink: 2[illegible character] ; lower center, in graphite: n° 83[s?]. ; lower center, in graphite: Vle F[m?] Didot. ; lower right, in graphite: B. 88. Cl. 87. ; lower right, in graphite: 36241
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1986
	opening date:   1987-02-04T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1986</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), Paris, stamp (Lugt 119), verso, upper right, in black. purchased from (August Laube, Zurich)
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Glaubinger, Jane. "Rembrandt's Etchings of the Passion of Christ." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 4 (1993): 164-69.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 164; Mentioned: p. 164-69
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161407

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