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Abraham Offering Isaac

Abraham Offering Isaac, between 1616 and 1680

  • Ferdinand Bol, Dutch, 1616-1680

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 1/8 inches (41.3 × 33.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S156

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed, in plate, lower left edge of image: F. Bol f.

Stamp, verso: JCL (Lugt 1431) [unknown monogram]

Inscribed, in plate, lower center of image: FC

JCL

1887, F. Meyer (Dresden, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bartsch, A. Catalogue Raisonne de Toutes les Etampes de Rembrandt, vol. II. Leipzig, 1880, p. 9, no. 1.

Ferdinand Bol, Abraham Offering Isaac, between 1616 and 1680, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S156.

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