The descent from the cross: second plate, Johann Jacob Hertel, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1761

Title(s)

The descent from the cross: second plate

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-12.281

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 119-1(2)
  Remark: copy c
• Bartsch 81
  Remark: kopie
• Hollstein Dutch 81
  Remark: kopie

Inscriptions / marks

• signature, date and inscription
• inscription: ‘33’

Description

Kopie naar de gelijknamige prent van Rembrandt.

Artist

• print maker: Johann Jacob Hertel
• after print by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

1761

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 519 mm × width 408 mm

What

• descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. I, p. 190, cat.nr. 119
• Es muss nicht immer Rembrandt sein .... : die Druckgraphiksammlung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität München, Robert Stalla, p. 216-217, cat.nr. 77