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Follow the light from the pale crowd at left to Christ, then into the dark right side, where a sick person lies on a wheelbarrow.
Rembrandt gathered episodes from chapter 19 of Matthew’s gospel into one wide scene, with Christ shining between a lightly etched crowd at left and deep darkness at right, where the sick wait for healing. Traces of details he shifted after the first etching still show around Christ’s hands, feet and eyes. The name comes from an old and doubtful tale that Rembrandt once paid a hundred guilders to get one of its impressions back.
Etching and drypoint on tan Japanese paper · Sheet trimmed to platemark: 27.9 × 39.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- The Hundred Guilder Print
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- c. 1648
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint on tan Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet trimmed to platemark: 27.9 × 39.3 cm (11 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Ethel Wrenn
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1606–1669
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.