The good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Title(s)

The good Samaritan

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1962-48

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 116-4(4)
• Bartsch 90-4(4)
• Hollstein Dutch 90-4(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt.inventor et. Feecit. 1633’Lugt
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• mark: ‘P. Mariette 1681’1790

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

1633

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 256 mm × width 203 mm

What

• the good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37)

Credit line

• Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1962

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. I, p. 183, cat.nr. 116
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 90
• Erik Hinterding, 'Investigation into Paper and Watermarks as a Research Method in Prints and Drawings', in: Jolanta Talbierska, Metodologia, metoda i terminologia grafiki i rysunku. Teoria i praktyka, Warschau 2014, p. 205.
• Cat.tent. Drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, Los Angeles (The J. Paul Getty Museum) 2010, p. 71