File:Rembrandt van Rijn - The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.jpg

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Rembrandt: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds   (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 Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Date 1634
date QS:P571,+1634-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print, engraving and drypoint print, state iii/iii
Dimensions height: 25.9 cm (10.1 in); width: 21.8 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1760539
Current location
Gallery 334
Accession number
79:1951
Object history by 1798
date QS:P,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Thomas Sandby (1721-1798), London/Windsor
by 1846
date QS:P,+1846-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1846-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Edward John Rudge (1763-1846), Worcestershire
from 1846 until 1924
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1846-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1924-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Rudge family, England

16 December 1924–17 December 1924: purchased by Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam, at the sale of the collection of John Edward Rudge at Christie's, London, lot no. 64
1928: purchased by J. Lionberger Davis (1873-1973), St. Louis, from Bernard Houthakker

1951: given to the Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, by J. Lionberger Davis
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Rembrandt. f. 1634
Source/Photographer www.slam.org : Home : Info
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File:B044 Rembrandt.jpg
Version at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
File:Rembrandt - The Angel Appearing To The Sheperds - WGA19058.jpg
Version at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

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