The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

etching, h 256mm × w 203mm More details

While the wounded Jewish man is being lifted from his horse, the Samaritan who rescued him is arranging his lodging with the innkeeper in the door opening. The scene is extremely finely etched and worked out pictorially with rich tonal gradations. Not coincidentally, for this print Rembrandt made a preparatory oil sketch in which, incidentally, the indecorous dog in the foreground is absent.

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Identification

Title(s)

The Good Samaritan
The good Samaritan

Object type

Object number

RP-P-1962-48

Catalogue reference

New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 116-4(4)
Bartsch 90-4(4)
Hollstein Dutch 90-4(4)

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘Rembrandt.inventor et. Feecit. 1633’Lugt
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
mark: ‘P. Mariette 1681’1790

Creation

Artist

print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

1633

Material and Technique

Material

paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 256 mm × width 203 mm

Subject

What

the good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1962

Copyright

Public domain

Documentation

Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. I, p. 183, cat.nr. 116
Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 90
Erik Hinterding, 'Investigation into Paper and Watermarks as a Research Method in Prints and Drawings', in: Jolanta Talbierska, Metodologia, metoda i terminologia grafiki i rysunku. Teoria i praktyka, Warschau 2014, p. 205.
Cat.tent. Drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, Los Angeles (The J. Paul Getty Museum) 2010, p. 71

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