The Death of the Virgin

Rembrandt1639

Details

Title: The Death of the Virgin
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date Created: 1639
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left
Print State: Second of three 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. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds in honor of Jean A. Shaw and Richard H. Wood (B.A. Wesleyan 1958, former DAC Registrar), 1984
Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint. Watermark: Strasbourg Bend and Lily with initials WR, as “Strasbourg Bend D.a.” in Ash and Fletcher’s Concordance (p. 179)
Keywords: Bible, death, mothers, New Testament, 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: 395 mm x 316 mm (15.55 in. x 12.44 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 99 third state; Hollstein 99 second of three states; White and Boon 99 second or third of three states. 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: 1984.12.1

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