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Collection Online as of January 28, 2023

Joseph Telling his Dreams

1638

Rembrandt van Rijn

(Dutch, 1606–1669)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching with drypoint

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 11.1 x 8.5 cm (4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Platemark: 10.9 x 8.3 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/4 in.)

Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1942.875

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 37 (XVIII.18)

State: iii/iii

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left, in plate: Rembrandt f. 1638 ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: H. 37 ; upper left, in graphite: No [1?]2 ; upper right, in pen and brown ink: No. 29. ; center left, in graphite (sideways): [illegible] ; center right, in pen and brown ink: [illegible] ; lower left, in red chalk: 42 ; lower left, in graphite: 998 ; lower center, in graphite: [various illegible and erased inscriptions] ; lower right, in graphite: Th[cut off by a hinge]

Provenance
C. H. (unidentified collector), stamped (Lugt 552), verso, lower left, in black. unidentified collector, stamped (not in Lugt), verso, center, in black ink. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland, Ohio. Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, Ohio; gift, 1942
Exhibition history

Prints by Rembrandt and His Circle. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 22, 1984).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.875