Rembrandt van Rijn
The Circumcision in the Stable

CultureDutch
Titles
  • The Circumcision in the Stable
Date1654
PlaceNetherlands
MediumEtching, state II/V
DimensionsPlate/Sheet: 6 1/16 × 7 5/8 in. (15.4 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Fund, Benjamin and Renée Danziger, Sally Tinkham, Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey, Sr., Joan H. Fleming in memory of Charles Honig, and by Johnson and Johnson matching funds provided by Charles F. Kade
Object number2000.84
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil on verso: "240", "67", "WR", "1707".
The print is signed twice on the plate, once in the upper left, and again in the center left: "Rembrandt / 1659"
Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 47; Hind 274: I/II Münz 227 Biörkland #54B

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Paper; fingernail-impressed and gold-speckled
2021.67
front of object
900–200 BC
Gold
2010.885
David Rabinowitch
no date
Line etching and aquatint
96.301
2739976 and 2739977 [8]
Jonathan Borofsky
1982
Etchings in red, green, and black, edition 38/50
96.3.8
Rosemarie Trockel
no date
Inkless intaglio
96.413
Untitled [3]
Martin Disler
1981
Photo etching, aquatint, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching, hard ground etching, drypoint, and scraping, edition I/X
96.18.3
Les pauvres (The Poor)
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1904–1905, printed 1913
Etching, artist's proof before steel facing
2002.3242
front cover
Migita Toshihide
1894–1902
Album of 12 woodblock printed diptychs; ink, color, mica, and lacquer on paper
2013.461
David Rabinowitch
May 28, 1993
Soft ground, aquatint and toned plate
96.310
John Baldessari
no date
Photoetching, aquatint and roulette in colors
96.89.2
Harlan W. Butt
2015
Silver and enamel
2018.601.A,.B
Kris
17th–early 18th Century
Gold, wood, rubies
2004.2351.A,.B