B 28
Adam and Eve. Second state of two. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1638. Haarlem.
Genesis 3:6.
Biblical subjects Old Testament SEE ALSO B 118 AND B 153
B 28
Adam and Eve. Second state of two. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1638. Haarlem.
Genesis 3:6.
B 29
Abraham entertaining the angels. With drypoint. Only state. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1656. Haarlem.
Genesis 18:1-15.
B 30
Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael. Only state. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1637. Haarlem.
Genesis 21:14.
B 33
Jacob caressing Benjamin. First state of two. Signed Rembrandt f. Haarlem.
About 1637. The traditional title, recently rejected, was Abraham caressing Isaac. Neither theme is taken directly from the Bible.
B 34
Abraham and Isaac. With drypoint. Only state. Signed and dated Rembrant 1645. Haarlem.
Genesis 22:1-9.
B 35
Abraham’s sacrifice. With drypoint. Only state. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1655. Haarlem.
Same text as B 34.
B 36
Four illustrations to a Spanish book. With burin and drypoint. Second state of three of the undivided plate. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1655 on each of the four representations. Amsterdam.
Each of the themes depicts a stage in the history of the ’piedra gloriosa’ of the title of the book: the glorious ’stone cut without hands.’ [A] Destroying the statue seen by Nebuchadnezzar in his dream (Daniel 2:1-49); [B] serving Jacob as a pillow when he dreamt of the heavenly ladder (Genesis 28:11-15); [c] helping David kill Goliath (I Samuel 17:49); [D] seen by Daniel in his apocalyptic dream of the four beasts (Daniel 7). The etchings were made as illustrations for a mystical book by the Sephardic rabbi Menasseh ben Israel (portrayed by Rembrandt 19 years earlier in B 269). Only four copies of the book with Rembrandt’s illustrations have survived. The whole plate went through three states before being divided into its four components, three of which underwent further alterations afterwards.
B 37
Joseph telling his dreams. Second state of three. Signed and dated Rembrant f. 1638. Haarlem.
Genesis 37:1-11.
B 38
Joseph’s coat brought to Jacob. First state of two. Signed Rembrant van Ryn fe. Haarlem.
About 1633. Genesis 37:31-34. The only plate signed with the artist’s full name.
B 39
Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. First state of two. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1634. Haarlem.
Genesis 39:7-12.
B 41
David in prayer. First state of three. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1652. Haarlem.
Presumably from 2 Samuel 12.
B 42
The blindness of Tobit: the larger plate. With touches of drypoint. First state of two. Signed and dated twice, in the shadows of the lower margin, Rembrandt f. 1651. Haarlem.
Tobit 11:6-10.
B 43
The angel departing from the family of Tobias. With drypoint. Third state of four. Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1641. Haarlem.
Tobit 12:16-22.
