Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe)
ca. 1654-1657
Not on view
During the 1650s Rembrandt formulated an unidealized and ethnically accurate portrayal of Jesus Christ that was one of his most iconoclastic innovations. He sought the face of Jesus in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, casting an anonymous young Sephardic Jew in this special role for a series of portrait studies. In this etching from the mid-1650s Jesus appears as a dark-haired, barefoot preacher of modest height and build, rather than as a romanticized "superstar."
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Title
- Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe)
- Date
- ca. 1654-1657
- Object Type
- Medium
- Etching, burin and drypoint
- Dimensions
- Image: 156 x 206 mm (6 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.) Cropped
- Credit Line
- Bruno and Sadie Adriani Collection
- Accession Number
- 1971.28.57