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Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
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Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1656-57
188 x 280 mm
Pen and bistre, wash, rubbed with the finger, on greyish paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
, Rijksprentenkabinet
C. Hofstede de Groot Bequest
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Benesch
1023
Schatborn
D139
Collection catalogues
Peter Schatborn,
Tekeningen van / Drawings by Rembrandt in het / in the Rijksmuseum
, 's-Gravenhage, 1985, nr. 44
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73B14
Annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air
External links
Rijksmuseum
Accession number
RP-T-1930-21
Other works by Rembrandt
The Death of Sapphira
Isaac Blessing Jacob
c. 1652
Three Studies of a Bearded Man on Crutches and a Woman
1636-40
Jews in a Synagogue
c. 1647-48
Self-Portrait
c. 1634