The great Jewish bride, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Title(s)

The great Jewish bride

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1962-112

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 154-3(5)
• Bartsch 340-3(5)
• Hollstein Dutch 340-3(5)

Inscriptions / marks

• monogram and date: ‘R 1635’
• mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘Lo Butes Col / No 63’
• inscription: ‘C. 21761’

Artist

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

Dating

1635

Material

• paper
• chalk

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 220 mm × width 169 mm

What

• bride (in wedding-dress)

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. 249, cat.nr. 154
• Rembrandt Caravaggio, Duncan Bull, Taco Dibbits, afb. 51, p. 134
• De etsen [uit de schenking De Bruijn], Karel Gerard Boon, p. 110, cat.nr. 58
• Rembrandt in alle staten, Yuri van der Linden
• 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. 207.
• A. Müller-Schirmer, Grenzen im Licht. Uber Licht und Schatten in den Zeichnungen von Rembrandt, Oud Holland 121 (2008), nr. 1, p. 79, noot 36