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Samson Threatening His Father-in-Law

Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Rembrandt van Rijn

Samson Threatening His Father-in-Law

1755

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Samson Threatening His Father-in-Law

1755

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 259 x 211 mm. (10 3/16 x 8 5/16 in.) Plate: 246 x 198 mm. (9 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.) Image: 223 x 188 mm. (8 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7668
After a painting by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn.

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Rembrandt pinx, 1635"; below image, lower center, in plate "Le Tableau Original est dans la Gallerie de la Majestie Prussienne"; below image, lower right, in plate "G.F. Schmidt fec 1756." Verso: center in graphite "S"; lower left in graphite "48"; lower left in graphite diamond with "12415"; lower center in graphite "J 137"; lower right in graphite "[indecipherable] / 1500"; lower right in graphite "137"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

1711–1774

German, 1712-1775
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Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

1605–1668

Dutch, 1606-1669
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