Jesus Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print)

Maker Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Additional Title(s)

Christ with the Sick Around Him, Receiving Little Children

Collections

European Print Highlights

ClassificationsPRINTS

Dateca. 1649

Mediumetching

Dimensions10 15/16 x 15 5/16 in. (27.8 x 38.9 cm.)

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Edward W. and Julia B. Bodman Collection

Status

Not on view

Label TextJesus seems to be the source of light in the center of this monumental print, called the Hundred Guilder Print for the high price it commanded in seventeenth-century Holland. Rembrandt has masterfully combined into one composition various scenes from the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, which tells of Christ healing the sick. The wide tonal range and myriad expressions help render the various dramas taking place, from debating scholars on the left to a camel and dozing traveler on the right.

Object number72.62.384