Presentation in the temple with the angel: small plate, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Title(s)

Presentation in the temple with the angel: small plate

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1987-167

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 54-2(2)
• Bartsch 51-2(2)
• Hollstein Dutch 51-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• monogram and date: ‘RHL 1630’
• mark: Lugt 1419
• inscription: ‘CG (met horizontale streep door deze initialen’
• mark: ‘CdE Geneve (in circle) doublet’
• mark: Lugt 1073 a
• mark: Lugt 2228 a

Artist

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

Dating

1630

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 102 mm × width 78 mm

What

• Simeon, holding the Christ-child, sings his canticle: 'Nunc dimittis'

Credit line

• J. Wyss Bequest, Hartford

Acquisition

bequest 1987

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. I, p. 83, cat.nr. 54
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 51
• Bij een aanwinst. De tweede staat van Rembrandts ets De aanbidding der herders: een nachtstuk, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 171
• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum 1987, p. 34.