Artist: After Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rjin (1606-1669)
Title: The Presentation in the Temple
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Year: c. 1880 (This print is from the 1800’s it is NOT a modern print.)
Dimensions: Image Size 6 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The presentation in the temple; Simeon presenting the infant Christ to the high priest seated on a dais at right, the Virgin and St Joseph kneeling at left in the shadows, another priest in tall headdress, holding large crozier standing behind them, Hannah overlooking the scene at top right, architectural features of the temple visible beyond.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.