Rembrandt
van Rijn
David
at Prayer, 1652
Inventory # 47514
| Original etching
printed in black ink with platetone on laid paper.
Signed and dated by the artist in the plate, lower
left: "Rembrandt f. 1652". An impression of Usticke's
second state of three with the slipt stroke on the
back, from the Basan recueil. Sheet: 5 11/16" x 3 3/4" Catalogue reference: Bartsch 41, Usticke 41 ii/iii David, identified only by the harp lying on the ground, kneels before his bed in prayer, completely given over to God. The subject is generally taken to be David praying for the life of his mortally ill son by the wife of Uriah (11 Samuel 12). |
