The Hundred Guilder Print — About This Work
Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1649
About the Work
The Hundred Guilder Print gathers several episodes from the Gospel of Matthew into one broad scene. Christ stands near the centre as mothers with children, the sick and other supplicants approach him, while figures at the left debate and observe. Rather than separating these encounters, Rembrandt binds them into a single crowded image of teaching, healing and attention.
The composition is organised through extraordinary contrasts of light and handling. Figures on the left are drawn with relatively open, delicate etched lines, while the right side deepens into rich passages of drypoint and shadow. Christ becomes the luminous pivot between them, and the eye moves continually between faces, gestures and pools of darkness.
This Cleveland impression is the second of two seventeenth-century states and is printed on Japanese paper. The combination of etching, engraving and drypoint allowed Rembrandt to move from fine linear description to velvety blacks within the same plate, helping make the work one of the most ambitious and technically varied prints of his career.
The Work
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Title: The Hundred Guilder Print
Date: c. 1649
Medium: Etching, drypoint, and engraving on Japanese paper
Platemark: 28.1 × 39 cm
Sheet: 28.3 × 38.2 cm
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1942.757
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 50 × 40 cm landscape frame.
The complete artwork is reproduced at approximately 38.2 × 27.7 cm, without cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0).
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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