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Plate for 'Virgin and Child with Cat and Snake'
Artist: Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: 1654
Materials: etched copper
Dimensions: 10 x 14 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,500 (Total: £38,000)
Vendor: Artemis Fine Arts
Review number: 3938 (1993)
Provenance:
Clement de Jonge 1679; Pieter de Haan; Pierre Francois Basan 1786; Auguste Jean; his widow; Auguste Bernard; Michael Bernard; Alvin Beaumont 1906; Robert Lee Humher 1938; with Artemis/David carritt Ltd.
Description:
Rembrandt based his print of the `Virgin and Child with the Cat and Snake' on a Mantegna engraving showing the Virgin symbolically vanquishing sin by crushing a snake (representing Satan) under her foot.
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