Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 330 x 234 mm. (13 x 9 3/16 in.)
Image: 287 x 217 mm. (11 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.2190
After the 1646 painting by Rembrandt in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv.no.393 (Bredius 574). This print is from a series of nine plates after Rembrandt paintings, "La Galerie Electorale de Düsseldorf" (Basel: 1778), all etched by Hess after paintings then in the collection of the Elector Palatine Karl Theodor in Düsseldorf. Most of these paintings are now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
There are four prints in the Garrett Collection from the series: 1946.112.2190, 1946.112.2191, 1946.112.2192, 1946.112.2193.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Rembrandt p."; below image, lower right, in plate "Hess Fecit a f"; below image, across lower margin, in plate "LA NATIVITÉ / gravé d'apres le Tableau original dans la Gallerie Electorale a Düsseldorf" Verso: lower right in graphite "5/"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
