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Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: An Oval Plate
Rembrandtca. 1641
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: An Oval Plate
- Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
- Date Created: ca. 1641
- Print State: First or second of two states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Bequest of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1953
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint on laid paper. Watermark: Indecipherable fragments along right margin, visible as left margin on verso; resembles Clocks nos. 336–341 (plate 51) in Heawood, although per Heawood (p. 71) such watermarks did not appear until after 1664
- Keywords: Bible, Jesus, New Testament, oval images, religions, religious art
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 135 mm x 100 mm (5.31 in. x 3.94 in.). Sheet dimensions: 149 mm x 113 mm (5.87 in. x 4.45 in.).
- Bibliography: Bartsch 79; Hind 173; White and Boon first or second of two states (previously catalgoed as first state, but see White and Boon on “fine reworking between Christ’s head and scroll above him” (p. 76) in second state. For student research on the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings’ watermarks vis-à-vis Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file “Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.”
- Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
- Accession Number: 1953.D1.3
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