- Reproduction
- Object number19
- Record typesingle object
- Catalog (number)Bartsch: B33-2(2)
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD165-3(4) - Object name
- TitleAbraham caressing Isaac
- Creator
- Production dateca 1637
- Technique
- Material
- Dimensions
- plate height: 116 mm
plate width: 89 mm - Inscriptionsignature - b.l.
Rembrandt. f
- Accompanying textRembrandt was particularly fascinated by the Old Testament accounts of the lives of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - stories full of drama and human emotions. In this little scene, Rembrandt gives us a disarming portrait of Abraham and his son, Isaac.
- AcquisitionH.F. De la Motte Fouquet, Cologne, d. 1874, sale 1875 (L 778). Acquired from Jan Veth, 1915.
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