Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Date1652

MediumEtching with drypoint

DimensionsOverall: 4 7/8 × 8 5/16 inches (12.37 × 21.11 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation

Object numberF88-25

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Exhibition History

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, no. 17.

The Age of Rembrandt, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, August 1-September 27, 1992, no cat.

Provenance

With Pia Gallo Gallery, Chicago, by November 21, 1988;

Purchased from Pia Gallo Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.

Published References

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 257 II/III, pp. 80, 107, as Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch.

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 257 II/III, (repro.), as Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch.

Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 222 II/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 52-B II/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. 65 II/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. 65 II/III.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, p. 7.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 276, as Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch.

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