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The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Rembrandt1634
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
- Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
- Date Created: 1634
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Rembrandt. f 1634”
- Print State: Third 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. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1938
- Materials & Techniques: Etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper. Watermark: Faint marks at top right margin, possible fragments of initials in white area around dove, and some indecipherable fragments below, which could suggest a Basel Crozier A.b. as listed in Ash and Fletcher’s Concordance (p. 74)
- Keywords: angels, animals, Bible, herders, New Testament, night, night scenes, religions, religious art, shepherds
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 260 mm x 217 mm (10.24 in. x 8.54 in.). Sheet dimensions: 264 mm x 220 mm (10.39 in. x 8.66 in.).
- Bibliography: Bartsch 44; Hind 120; White and Boon 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: 1938.D1.48
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