The Crucufixion
AfterAfter
Rembrandt van Rijn
(Leiden, Netherlands, 1606 - 1669)
Datec. 1635
Mediumetching on paper
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsPlate Size: Height: 9.6 cm, Width: 6.8 cm
Frame: Height: 38.1 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
Frame: Height: 38.1 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1955 by the Honourable Gertrude Forbes-Semphill.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG006813
About MeThis print was probably made in the 18th century, using Rembrandt's original plate. Frenchman Claude-Henri Watelet acquired over 70 of the plates around 1760 and ‘restored’ many of them. After his death plates passed to print dealer Piere-François Basan .Known as ‘The Crucifixion: small plate’ to distinguish it from Rembrandt's other images of this subject, the composition breaks with the usual symmetrical arrangement. The cross is placed off-centre and at an angle, focusing attention on the significant characters. Rembrandt pays particular attention to the features and emotion conveyed in the faces of the figures surrounding Christ.
The plate is signed very faintly ‘Rembrandt f’ in the upper centre.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1859
