id:			156828
accession number:	1992.5
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.5
updated:		2025-02-09 04:54:08.447000

The Entombment, c. 1654. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching, drypoint and engraving with surface tone; sheet: 21.8 x 16.8 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/8 in.); platemark: 21.1 x 16 cm (8 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.5

title:				The Entombment
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1654
creation date earliest:		1649
creation date latest:		1659
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	etching, drypoint and engraving with surface tone
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 86 (XVIII.47)

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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 21.8 x 16.8 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/8 in.); Platemark: 21.1 x 16 cm (8 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
state of the work:	iv/iv
edition of the work: 	

support materials:

	description:	cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	VERSO, lower center, in graphite: W 91 ; lower left, in graphite: 50279 ; lower center, in graphite: B 86. ; lower right, in graphite: 21 · 11 · 6 ; lower right, in pen and brown ink: 87 ; lower right, in graphite: NS11- ; lower right, in graphite: Py[sor?] ; lower right, in graphite: Nlnli
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

	title:		Rembrandt: A Decade of Brilliance (1648 - 1658)
	opening date:   2015-03-20T00:00:00
	<i>Rembrandt: A Decade of Brilliance (1648 - 1658)</i>. Hoehn Family Galleries University of San Diego, CA (March 20-May 22, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'University of San Diego Hoehn Family Galleries (3/20/2015 - 5/22/2015):  "Rembrandt: A Decade of Brilliance (1648 - 1658)"', 'opening_date': '2015-03-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Gordon W. Nowell-Usticke [according to Ruth-Maria Muthmann]; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 30-May 1, 1968, lot 315 [according to sales catalogue purchased from Harlow, Keppel and Co.]. (C.G. Boerner, Inc., Düsseldorf); sold to private collector, Germany [according to Ruth-Maria Muthmann]; purchased from (C.G. Boerner, Inc., Düsseldorf)
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 48, 74
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

	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. 167; Mentioned: p. 164-69
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161407

	Watkins, Catherine Bailey. <em>Rembrandt's 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series.</em> 2011.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 174, fig. 3; p. 223, fig. 100
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IMAGES

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