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single object

Bartsch: B34-1(1)
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD224-1(2)

Abraham and Isaac

1645

support: paper
medium: ink

signature and date - b.l.

Rembrant/ f. 1645.

To test Abraham, God commanded him to sacrifice his son, Isaac (Genesis 22:1-8). On the way to the appointed place Isaac asks where the sacrificial animal is. Rembrandt depicted the conversation between father and son as if they were already at the altar.

E. V. ...stbranijs (inscription in a late 17th- or early 18th-century hand). E. Astley Norfolk, sale 1760 (L 2775). F. Schindler, Lindau (no stamp; cf. L 2351): sale Stuttgart, May 2nd, 1913. Purchased at the latter sale.