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Rembrandt van Rijn

Abraham’s Sacrifice

1654

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Rembrandt van Rijn

Abraham’s Sacrifice

1654

Physical Qualities Etching and drypoint, Sheet: 160 × 137 mm. (6 5/16 × 5 3/8 in.) Plate: 156 × 132 mm. (6 1/8 × 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1943.32.241
BMA, "The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Collection," 12 February - 13 April 1997.

"Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible," North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2002- February 23, 2003.

Andaleeb Banta and Joanna Karlgaard, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “The Rembrandt Effect,” December 12, 2021 - April 10, 2022.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "Rembrandt f 1655"

Markings: WM: initials "WK" and partial Strasbourg Lily

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

1605–1668

Dutch, 1606-1669
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