Title(s)

The circumcision in the stable

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2004-74-47

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 280-3(5)
• Bartsch 47-1(2)
  Remark: 2(3)
• Hollstein Dutch 47-1(2)
  Remark: 2(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f. 1654’

Description

Prent maakt deel uit van een album.

Artist

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

Dating

1654

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 90 mm × width 142 mm

What

• circumcision of the Christ-child by the priest in the temple (Luke 2:21)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 2004

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Album met voorstellingen van en door kunstenaars genoemd in het lexicon 'Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters' (RP-P-2004-74)

Related

• De besnijdenis in de stal

• Rembrandt the printmaker, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Marijn Schapelhouman, Peter Schatborn, Ernst van de Wetering, cat.nr. 74-1a
• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 187; p. 298, cat.nr. 85
• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 187; p. 297, cat.nr. 85
• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. 2, p. 233, cat.nr. 280-III
• Rembrandt's faith : church and temple in the Dutch golden age, p. 194-197
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, dl. 18-29, cat.nr. 47
• A catalogue of Rembrandt's etching, chronologically arranged and completely illustrated, cat.nr. 274-II
• Le peintre graveur, cat.nr. 47