Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves (The Three Crosses)
1653
Rembrandt van Rijn
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 37.2 x 42.8 cm (14 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
sheet: 37.8 x 44.1 cm (14 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.1.50
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 78, State i/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John MacGowan [died 1803], Edinburgh (Lugt 1496). (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1930 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1949
R. Horace Gallatin Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949.
1966
Master Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966-1967.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 49a, 52-53, repro.
Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 55, repro.
1973
Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1973.
1975
Jacques Callot, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975 (in a "techniques" gallery to supplement the Callot installation), not in cat.
2001
The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as The Three Crosses, repro.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
1923
Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.
1969
White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.
1992
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 320, repro.
Inscriptions
none
Markings
recto: none; verso: John MacGowan (Lugt 1496)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q60761193