ID: 700008950 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008950	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Christ presented to the people: oblong plate (dry point (print); Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn; 1655; Art Gallery of NSW (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia); 8130)

Note: v of 8 states. Rembrandt altered the copper plate no fewer than eight times: in the first three versions or ‘states’ his changes to the matrix were minor ones; in the fourth state he cut away a strip about 2.5 centimetres wide along the top edge simply because the plate was too big for the sheets of paper at his disposal (as a result, impressions from early states invariably have a strip of paper added to the top). More remarkably, however, Rembrandt entirely transformed the composition in the sixth state by burnishing out all ofthe foreground figures in front of the platform. Subsequently, he added two brick arches to the lowest part of the platform, which frame mysterious, deep chasms of inexplicable significance. With the noisy crowd removed from the foreground, Rembrandt focuses the pictorial narrative on the two protagonists, intensifying the feelingof Christ’s vulnerability and humiliation, and so engaging and challenging the beholder anew.

Titles:

Christ presented to the people: oblong plate (preferred,C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

dry point (print) [300041349] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, engravings (prints))

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1655

Creator Display:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn [preferred]

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch painter, printmaker, 1606-1669) [500011051]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 8130

Credit Line: Purchased 1948

Display Materials: drypoint

	drypoint (printing process) [300053228]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, engraving (printing process))

Dimensions: 36.3 x 45.7 cm trimmed just outside platemark; 36.5 x 45.8 cm sheet

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Ecce Homo [901000270]
	.....((Passion of Christ, Life of Jesus Christ, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: Not signed. Not dated.

State: 5:8

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Christ Presented to the People

.................... State 5: Christ Presented to the People

Sources and Contributors:
Christ presented to the people: oblong plate	........ [VP]
	........ Art Gallery of NSW [online] (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Art Gallery of NSW [online] (2000-)