Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print)
Mat: 16 x 21 1/4 inches (40.64 x 53.98 cm)
University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1954, no cat.
Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat., as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat., as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Religious Subjects: A Variety of Approaches, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 20-September 24, 2006, no cat., as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Religious Subjects: A Variety of Approaches, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 8-October 16, 2011, no cat., as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Divine Inspiration, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 16-July 14, 2019, no cat., as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Rembrandt combines several events from the Gospel of Saint Matthew in this masterful demonstration of technical skill and imaginative power. A radiant Christ stands silhouetted against a dark arched shadow as he blesses the sick who gather on the right. Their carefully modeled forms contrast sharply with the debating figures of the Pharisees on the left. These rich and powerful men engaged Jesus in a debate about divorce in an effort to expose him as a pretender. Barely indicated with lightly etched lines, they recede in importance when compared to people who are poor and disabled.
Egor Ivanovic Makovskij (1802-1886), Moscow, by 1886 [1];
With the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, by May 6, 1930 [2];
Purchased from the Hermitage Museum by C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, by May 6, 1930;
Purchased from their sale, Dubletten der Kupferstichsammlung der Eremitage zu Leningrad und anderer staatlicher Sammlungen der Sowjet-Union, ferner Beiträge aus in- und ausländischem öffentlichen und privaten Besitz: seltene Kupferstiche des XV. bis XVII. Jahrhunderts, reiche graphische Werke von Dürer und Rembrandt, Spezialsammlungen alter Holzschnitte und Ornamentstiche, Kupferstiche des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 6-9, 1930, lot 1180, as Christus heilt die Kranken, gennant das Hundertguldenblatt, by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, 1930-1936 at the latest;
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by March 31, 1936;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1936.
NOTES:
[1] Mackowsky was the founder of Moscow’s École des Beaux-Arts. Lugt Suppl. 885a.
[2] The Hermitage used this mark on drawings and prints sold from their collection in 1928 and thereafter. Lugt Suppl. 2681a.
Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 236, pp. ix, 3, 8, 19, 21, 24n2, 27, 34, 39, 102, 107, as Christ, with the Sick around Him, Receiving Little Children (The ‘Hundred Guilder Print’).
Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 236, (repro.), as Christ, with the Sick around Him, Receiving Little Children (The ‘Hundred Guilder Print’).
Dubletten der Kupferstichsammlung der Eremitage zu Leningrad und anderer staatlicher Sammlungen der Sowjet-Union, ferner Beiträge aus in- und ausländischem öffentlichen und privaten Besitz: seltene Kupferstiche des XV. bis XVII. Jahrhunderts, reiche graphische Werke von Dürer und Rembrandt, Spezialsammlungen alter Holzschnitte und Ornamentstiche, Kupferstiche des XVIII. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig: C.G. Boerner, May 6-9, 1930), 157, as Christus heilt die Kranken, gennant das Hundertguldenblatt.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 96, (repro.), as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 217.
George Biörklund, Rembrandt’s Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated, 2nd ed. (Stockholm: 1968), no. BB 49-1.
Karel G. Boon and Christopher White, Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vols. 18, Rembrandt van Rijn: Text (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1969), no. 74 II/II.
Karel G. Boon and Christopher White, Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vols. 19, Rembrandt van Rijn: Plates (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1969), no. 74 II/II.
Stephanie S. Dickey, ed., The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 50, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (New York: Abaris, 1993), no. 74.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 168, (repro.), as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 92-94, 276, (repro.), as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 76, (repro.), as Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
