Christ disputing with the Doctors: a sketch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652

Title(s)

Christ disputing with the Doctors: a sketch

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1987-174

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 267-1(2)
• Bartsch 65-2(3)
• Hollstein Dutch 65-2(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt.f.1654’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228 a
• collector's mark: Lugt 33
• collector's mark: Lugt 2632
• mark: ‘Dr. Ruscher (of Buscher) in rechthoek’

Artist

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

Dating

1652

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 125 mm × width 213 mm

What

• Christ explaining his doctrine

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. II, p. 209, cat.nr. 267
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 65
• 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.