The Presentation in the Temple, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1654

Title(s)

The Presentation in the Temple
The presentation in the temple in the dark manner

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1962-27

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 285-1(1)
• Bartsch 50-1(1)
• Hollstein Dutch 50-1(1)

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

c. 1654

Physical features

etching and drypoint with plate tone, printed on Japanese paper

Material

• Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height 210 mm × width 162 mm

What

• Simeon, holding the Christ-child, sings his canticle: 'Nunc dimittis'

Credit line

• Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1962

Copyright

Public domain

• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 181; p. 298, cat.nr. 77
• Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, p. 181; p. 299, cat.nr. 77
• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 244, cat.nr. 285
• Rembrandt's faith : church and temple in the Dutch golden age, p. 217-225
• Rembrandt etchings from the Frits Lugt collection, Erik Hinterding, Frits Lugt, p. 1135-115, cat.nr. 37
• Reframing Rembrandt : jews and the christian image in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Michael Zell, p. 99-123
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 50
• De etsen [uit de schenking De Bruijn], Karel Gerard Boon, p. 113, afb. 38, cat.nr. 82