School of Rembrandt

The Offering of Cain and Abel



School of Rembrandt - The Offering of Cain and Abel



School of Rembrandt
The Offering of Cain and Abel
c. 1650
197 x 295 mm
Pen and wash in bistre heightened with white body-colour
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 16
Benesch 858

Collection catalogues
Holm Bevers, Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, 2018, nr. 124


Iconclass

71A81 The sacrifice of Cain and Abel: Abel offers a lamb, Cain usually a sheaf of corn

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