Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes van Vliet
The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate
1632
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Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 530 × 410 mm. (20 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.7840
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
BMA, "The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Collection," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
"Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible," North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2002- February 23, 2003.
"Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible," North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2002- February 23, 2003.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate "Rembrandt. f. cum pryvlo;. 1633." Verso: lower left in brown ink (faint) indecipherable; lower left in graphite "ug/[illegible]"; lower left in graphite "3299./onxf"; lower left in graphite diamond with "11655"; lower right in graphite "11i4"
Markings: None
Artist
Johannes van Vliet
1609–1636
Dutch, born c. 1610, active c. 1628-1637
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