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Abraham and Isaac

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)
Date1645
MediumEtching with burin
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 × 5 inches (15.57 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-69/32
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Fine Arts Festival, The First Christian Church, St. Joseph, MO, November 19-20, 1958, no cat.

Provenance

Charles Deering (1852–1927), Stiges, Spain, by 1927;

 

Possibly given to his daughters, Marion McCormick (née Deering, 1886-1965), DuPage County, IL, and Barbara Danielson (née Deering, 1888-1987), Miami, 1924 [1];

 

The Art Institute of Chicago, by May 30, 1930-April 1, 1932;

 

Purchased from the Art Institute of Chicago, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] According to the Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Deering gave his art collection to his daughters in 1924. They in turn donated many works to the Art Institute following his death in 1927.

Published References

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 214, pp. 28, 96, as Abraham and Isaac.


Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 214, (repro.), as Abraham and Isaac.


Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 180 II/II.


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. 45-D II/II.


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. 34 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. 34 II/II.


George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 276, as Abraham and Isaac.





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