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Abraham and Isaac

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
1645

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint
Dimensions Platemark: 15.7 x 13.3 cm (6 3/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 15.9 x 13.3 cm (6 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in honor of Clifford S. Ackley
Accession Number2003.114
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 034 i; Hind 214 first state prior to that known by White & Boon
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in black ink, the collector's mark of Charles C. Cunningham, Jr. (not in Lugt)
Verso, lower left, stamped in black ink, the collector's mark of John Webster (Lugt 1554)
Verso, lower right, ink pen and brown ink, the collector's mark of John Webster (Lugt 1555)
Verso, lower left, in graphite pencil: 38
Verso, lower left, in graphite pencil: 130 [crossed out]
Verso, lower left, in graphite pencil: 340-4-
Verso, lower center, in graphite pencil: GN 32
Verso, lower right, in graphite pencil: 2-12-0
InscriptionsSigned and dated in plate: Rembrant. 1645.
ProvenanceWilliam Beckford (b. 1760 – d. 1844), London. John Webster (b. 1810 – d. 1891; Lugt 1554, 1555), Aberdeen; May 9, 1889, Webster sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 24. Captain Gordon Nowell-Usticke; April 30 - May 1, 1968, Nowell-Usticke sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 217. Charles C. Cunningham, Jr., Brookline, MA. British Rail Pension Fund; June 29, 1987, British Rail Pension Fund sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 63, for £132,000. C. G. Boerner (dealer) Düsseldorf. 1999, sold by Joseph R. Ritman (dealer; the Netherlands), Sotheby's, and Artemis (Ritman Catalogue no. 9) to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2003, gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 2003)