Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Date1648

MediumEtching with burin and drypoint

DimensionsOverall: 6 9/16 × 5 inches (16.66 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-491

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Exhibition History

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, January-February 1938, no cat.

Rembrandt, Master Etcher: A Study Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, April 2-23, 1972, no cat.

Rembrandt van Rijn: The Graphic Works, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, September 12-October 30, 1983, no cat.

Provenance

With Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, by June-July 8, 1933 [1];

Purchased from Frederick Keppel & Co., through Alden Galleries, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

NOTES:

[1] Paul Gardner, Director, discusses this drawing in a letter to John H. Bender, Director, Alden Galleries, in a letter dated June 22, 1933, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01-01, Director’s Office Records, box 1, folder 3, Alden Galleries. Gardner and Bender were negotiating for the drawing with David Keppel, director of Frederick Keppel & Co., a New York print dealer.

Published References

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 233 I/II, pp. 23, 101, 145, as Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House.

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 233 I/II, (repro.), as Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House.

Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 271 I/III.

George Biörklund, Rembrandt’s Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated, 2^nd ed. (Stockholm: 1968), no. BB 48-C I/III.

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. 176 I/III.

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. 176 I/III.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 276, as Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House.

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