- Reproduction
- Object number22.001
- Record typesingle object
- Catalog (number)Bartsch: B36a-3(5)
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD288a-3(5) - Object name
- TitleNebuchadnezzar's Dream
- Creator
- Production date1655
- Technique
- Material
- Dimensions
- plate height: 96 mm
plate width: 76 mm - Inscriptionsignature and date - b.l.
Rembrandt. f 1655.
- Accompanying textThe etching, from the book "Piedra Gloriosa" written by Menasseh ben Israel, illustrates Daniel 2:31-35: In his dream Nebuchadnezzar sees an image with a head of gold and feet of iron and clay. A stone, on the right, breaks the image into pieces. The "glorious stone", symbol of the Messiah, becomes a mountain that fills the entire earth. Rembrandt expresses this by showing part of a globe.
- AcquisitionProperty of the Rijksmuseum (L 240), Amsterdam. On loan to the Rembrandt House Museum since 1911.
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