Jacob's Ladder
1655
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, burin and drypoint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 10.6 × 7 cm (4 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.4 × 7.7 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.7210
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 36, State B ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Barnard [died 1784], London (Lugt 1419); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930
Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.
1932
Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.
1958
The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.
1961
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.
Bibliography
1923
Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.
1969
White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 288b, ii/iv.
Inscriptions
in plate, in margin below image at bottom left: Rembrandt f 1655; verso, top center, in brown ink, by a later hand: J.B [John Barnard collector's mark (Lugt 1419)] 2 / Harding; center, in graphite, by a later hand: 3rd Impr [?] / same as larger plates [?] / B.36 c II / c.13966/ 2 Imp [struckthrough]
Wikidata ID
Q65024760