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Workshop of Rembrandt
The Descent from the Cross
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Workshop of Rembrandt
The Descent from the Cross
c. 1650/52
142 x 110.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 584
Bauch
84
Bredius/Gerson
584
Werner Sumowski,
Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler IV
, Landau/Pfalz, 1989, nr. 1972 (as Anonymous School of Rembrandt)
Giltaij
626 (pupil of Rembrandt)
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.,
Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century
, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 300-309 (as Rembrandt Workshop possibly Constantijn van Renesse)
John Walker,
National Gallery of Art, Washington
, New York, 1995, nr. 366 (as Rembrandt)
Exhibitions
2011
Rembrandt in America
, Nr. 43
Provenance
with Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, 1921
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, after purchase by funds of the Estate
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1942
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73D71
Descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)
External links
RKD
52821
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Accession number
1942.9.61
Other works by Rembrandt
Self-Portrait
1660
Portrait of Petronella Buys
1635
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels
Probably 1654-56
Portrait of Philips Lucasz.
1635
Evangelist Writing
c. 1665