Rembrandt van Rijn
Medea
1648
Physical Qualities
Etching, with touches of drypoint, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 240 × 177 mm. (9 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.7784
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower right, in plate "Rembrandt. f. 1648"; below image, lower margin, in plate monogram of Jan Six "ISX" and four lines of text in two columns "Creus en Iason hier [...]" Verso: upper center in graphite "C-No. 124 - 2e [indecipherable]"; lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite "77"; lower left in graphite "[indecipherable] T."; lower left in graphite "2de èpr:"; lower right in graphite "T.H.G."
Markings: CM: Joseph Daniel Böhm (Lugt 271, 272, and 1442); Garrett initials (not in Lugt) WM: countermark LB
