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A bearded man in long robes kneels at his bedside in praying posture, framed by the bed’s open canopy curtain.

The Man (King David) rests his chin on his praying hands looking up, his eyes, nose, and chin illuminated as if from above. The side of his face and his hands are in shadow. We see him in three quarter view behind his left side as he looks left and upward. He’s wearing a long white sleeping robe and slippers and kneels on a pillow. A harp lies on the floor flat in the foreground lower center, partly in shadow. Bed curtains are gathered up, resting on the bedposts. Fringed blankets hand off the bed almost to the floor.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
9.1985
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
King David in Prayer
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1652
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/237132

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint on thin white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 14.3 × 9.2 cm (5 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: Rembrandt f. 1652
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp, stamped three times, with associated graphite numbering: [bicuspid shaped] 85
  • collector's mark: former mounting, black stamp: D[backwards] P[linked] [within a circle] [Lugt 617, mark of Antonio Cesare de Poggi]
  • collector's mark: former mounting, black stamp: C. DELANGLANDE [within an oblong border] [Lugt 660, mark of Charles Delanglade]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
A. C. de Poggi (d. 1836), London and Paris (Lugt 617). Charles Delanglade (b. 1870), Marseille (Lugt 660).

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii (posthumous and with the scratch)
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 268, Bartsch 41, Hind 258

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg
Object Number
9.1985
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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