Printed with delicate lines or heavy shading on cream-white paper, two elderly men and two others with wings sit on or stand near a cloth laid with food just in front of the open, deeply shadowed doorway of a house in this vertical etching and drypoint. The men and angels take up the lower third of the composition. One angel with a beard and long hair pulled back under a band sits facing our right in profile along the left edge of the print. Next is a man with a chest-length white beard, a long headdress, and a lined face. He holds the foot of a shallow chalice in one hand and gestures to an…
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Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

1656

Medium
etching and drypoint on Japanese paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
plate: 15.8 x 12.7 cm (6 1/4 x 5 in.) ; sheet: 16.1 x 13 cm (6 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
New Century Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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