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The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds (Primary Title)

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669 (Artist)

1634
Dutch
Works On Paper
Prints
Etching, drypoint and burin on laid paper with a watermark: Foolscap with Five-Pointed collar (variant K.a.b.) dated by Hinterding to c.1650.
European Art
Place Made,HOLLAND,Amsterdam
Sheet (trimmed to plate line): 10 5/16 × 8 3/4 in. (26.19 × 22.23 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
2013.202
Not on view
Signed in plate lower right: "Rembrandt f 1634"
Collectors mark of Charles Delanglade (Lugt 660) on verso.
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "a7444", "B44", "M. 48" and "MG-82-85-IRHE"
Alice and Lewis Nelson Fund, Frank Raysor Fund and Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund
Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours, VMFA, October 17, 2015 to February 22, 2016

Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of RIchmond Museums, March 31 to May 15, 2015 (installed 3/25/2015; deinstalled 5/18/2015).
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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