About the Artwork
Descent from the Cross by Torchlight
1654
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
1606-1669
Dutch
Unknown
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 8 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (21 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (21.3 × 16.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
38.33
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: Rembrandt. f. 1654
Inscribed, in ink, verso: G. J. Morant
Stamp, in blue, verso: T. W. Waller Stamp, in black, verso: J. H. Wrenn
Provenance
G. J. Morant
T. W. Waller (London, England)
J. H. Wrenn (Chicago, Illinois, USA). 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Impressions of Faith, Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings. Exh. cat., University of Michigan-Dearborn Library. Ann Arbor, February 10- February 23, 1989, no. 12 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 12.
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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Descent from the Cross by Torchlight, 1654, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 38.33.
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