File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Abraham Entertaining the Angels.jpg

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Rembrandt: Abraham Entertaining the Angels   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt
Alternative names
Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death 15 July 1606 Edit this at Wikidata 4 October 1669 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Amsterdam
Work period between circa 1625 and circa 1669
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5598
Title
Abraham Entertaining the Angels
Date 1656
date QS:P571,+1656-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print and drypoint print, only state
Dimensions height: 16 cm (6.2 in); width: 13 cm (5.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,13U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1760539
Accession number
104:1994
Object history by 1795
date QS:P,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Jan Chalon (1738-1795), Amsterdam/Paris/London

1795: inherited by Christian Josi (....-1828), London/Amsterdam from Jan Chalon

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: purchased by Reginald Pole Carew (1753-1835), Cronwall, from Christian Josi through Thomas Philipe, London

13 May 1835: purchased by N.N., William Esdaile (1758-1837), London, at the sale of the collection of Reginald Pole Carew at B. Wheatley, London, lot no. 34
11 June 1840–16 June 1840: sale of the collection of William Esdaile at Christie's, London, lot no. 627

by 1961
date QS:P,+1961-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1961-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Alfred Strölin (1871-1954), Lausanne, or Alfred Strölin (1912-1974), Lausanne/Paris

7 June 1961: purchased by Eduard Trautscholdt at the sale of the collection of Strölin at Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, lot no. 11

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: acquired by Artemis Fine Arts, London, and C.G. Boerner Inc., New York City/London/Düsseldorf, from N.N., Germany
1994: purchased by the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, from Artemis Fine Arts, London, and C.G. Boerner Inc., New York City/London/Düsseldorf
Credit line Funds given by The Sidney and Sadie Cohen Foundation in memory of Ilene Cohen Edison
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Rembrandt f. 1656
Source/Photographer www.slam.org : Home : Info
Other versions
File:Abraham Entertaining the Angels LACMA M.75.118.jpg
Version at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
File:Abraham Entertaining the Angels.jpg
Version at the National Gallery of Art
File:B029 Rembrandt.jpg
Version at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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current00:55, 6 January 2009Thumbnail for version as of 00:55, 6 January 2009601 × 766 (568 KB)Postdlf (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=''Abraham Entertaining the Angels''. Etching and drypoint on Japanese paper, only state; plate: 6 5/16 x 5 1/8 in. (16 x 13 cm); sheet: 6 7/8 x 5 3/8 in. (17.5 x 13.6 cm). |Source=[http://stlouis.art.museum/emuseum/code/emuseum

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