Rembrandt

The Rape of Ganymede



Rembrandt - The Rape of Ganymede



Rembrandt
The Rape of Ganymede
1635
183 x 160 mm
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on paper
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden


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Rembrandt - The Rape of Ganymede
Rembrandt
The Rape of Ganymede
1635

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 241
Benesch 1954-57 92 info
Schatborn D16

Literature
Duncan Bull (red.), Rembrandt Caravaggio, Zwolle - Amsterdam, 2006, fig. 54
Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander (eds.), Rembrandt in Amsterdam, New Haven, 2021, fig. 11.3


Exhibitions

2016 Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 66

Iconclass

92BB121 The rape of Ganymede: he is carried off through the air by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, or by the eagle of Jupiter

External links

RKD 262326
Kupferstich-Kabinett Accession number C 1357

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