id:			162193
accession number:	2002.10
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.10
updated:		2025-07-01 11:07:06.545000

The Blindness of Tobit: The Large Plate, 1651. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching and drypoint; sheet: 16.3 x 13.2 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); platemark: 15.8 x 12.9 cm (6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2002.10

title:				The Blindness of Tobit: The Large Plate
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creation date:			1651
creation date earliest:		1651
creation date latest:		1651
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	etching and drypoint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: White-Boon 42, Bartsch 42

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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 16.3 x 13.2 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Platemark: 15.8 x 12.9 cm (6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.)
state of the work:	I/II
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	description:	laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-03-09T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

	title:		Monotypes: Painterly Prints
	opening date:   2015-05-31T00:00:00
	<i>Monotypes: Painterly Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 31-October 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58); John Heywood Hawkins (Lugt 3022); Duke of Buccleuch (Lugt 402); [sale London, Christie's, 19-22 April 1887 lot 1777, bought by Danlos, Paris]; Alfred Strölin; [sale Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 7 June 1961, lot #20 bought by C.G. Boerner]; Private Collection, Germany, 1961-91; Joseph Ritman, Amsterdam; [sale Artemis and Sotheby's, no. 19, New York, 1995]
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Franklin, David. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 42 - 43
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	Watkins, Catherine Bailey. <em>Rembrandt's 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series.</em> 2011.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 2015, fig. 84
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	Monney, Gilles, Camille Noverraz, and Vincent Barras. Pierre Decker: médecin et collectionneur. Lausanne : Éditions BHMS, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 74-75
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