About the Artwork
Commencement d'orage
ca. 1778
Antoine de Marcena y de Ghuy (Artist) French, 1724-1811 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Artist) Dutch, 1606-1669
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 10 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (26 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 11 × 12 3/4 inches (27.9 × 32.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S734
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate below image, lower left: Rembrandt pt. Inscribed, lower right A. de Marcenay de ghuy. pbat. et Scbat 1778 No. 17. Inscribed, lower center: Commencement D'Orage | D'apres l'Original de Rembrandt; du Cabinet de Monsieur le Comte De Vence | Marechal de Camp de armees du Roy. | a Paris chez l'Auteur quai de Conti la 2e. porte Cochere apres la rue Guenegaud.
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October 1883, F. Keppel. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Antoine de Marcena y de Ghuy; after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Commencement d'orage, ca. 1778, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S734.
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