The Sacrifice of Abraham, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655

Title(s)

The Sacrifice of Abraham
Abraham's sacrifice

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-63

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 287-1(1)
• Bartsch 35-1(1)
• Hollstein Dutch 35-1(1)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f 1655’
• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

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

Dating

1655

Physical features

etching and drypoint, with plate tone, printed on Japanese paper

Material

• Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Technique

etching / drypoint / intaglio printmaking technique

Measurements

height 156 mm × width 129 mm

What

• the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 300
• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 301
• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 247, cat.nr. 287
• Rembrandt's faith : church and temple in the Dutch golden age, p. 90-92
• Rembrandt etchings from the Frits Lugt collection, Erik Hinterding, Frits Lugt, p. 78-80, cat.nr. 23
• Reframing Rembrandt : jews and the christian image in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Michael Zell, p. 186; p. 187-191
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 35