Reproduction
Object number
292
Record type
single object
Catalog (number)
Bartsch: B49
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD184
Object name
Title
Etching plate: Simeon's Hymn of Praise [The Presentation in the Tempel]
Creator
Production date
ca 1640
Technique
Material
support:
copper (inked and lacquered)
Dimensions
plate height: 217 mm
plate width: 294 mm
Accompanying text
By minimizing the hatching over a wide band and not letting it be bitten out so deeply, Rembrandt has been able to suggest an enormous shaft of light. The brightly lit figures are mainly shown in outline. The details are worked up in dry point.
Acquisition
Group of 74 plates directly purchased from Rembrandt by Clement de Jonghe in the 1650´s; Pieter de Haan d. 1766; Claude-Henri Watelet d. 1786; Pierre-Francois Basan d. 1797; Auguste Jean; Auguste Bernard; Alvin Beaumont purchased the plates from Bernard’s son, 1906; Beaumont sold them to Dr. Robert Lee Humber, 1938; sold by the descendants of Robert Lee Humber, 1993. Four plates of this group (of which this is one) came to The Rembrandt House Museum through Arcold Inc. (this purchase was made possible by the support of the Rembrandt Association [Vereniging Rembrandt], the Friends of The Rembrandt House Museum, VSB Foundation and the Ministry of Culture), and six plates are on loan from private collections.
