The ultimate online catalogue of Rembrandt’s etchings Desktop

This website focuses on the graphic works of Rembrandt van Rhijn, featuring a detailed catalogue of all his etchings, and information about the private collection ‘Rembrandt in Black and White’.

ABOUT

This website is dedicated to the graphical works by Rembrandt van Rhijn (Leyden 1606-1669 Amsterdam). It contains three interrelated elements:

Catalogue #21

The core part is Catalogue #21, which contains elaborate descriptions and information about all etchings made by Rembrandt.

Rembrandt in Black and White

The second part provides information about the private collection ‘Rembrandt in Black and White’, which contains 220 impressions of Rembrandt’s works and 90 graphical works by other artists, all related to Rembrandt’s oeuvre.

Webshop

Finally, there is a webshop where a small number of original impressions are offered for sale.

CATALOGUE #21

Since the first catalogue of his etching was published by Edmé-François Gersaint in Paris in 1751, nineteen more versions followed, by authors with various nationalities.

Some authors used their own numbering, but most followed the numbers and 12 categories introduced by Adam von Bartsch in 1803.

Over the years many prints originally attributed to Rembrandt lost that status, some of those were ‘restored’ later.

REMBRANDT IN BLACK & WHITE

This private collection contains 220 original etchings by Rembrandt en ca 90 related works of art.

Like copies by other artists or works by predecessors that inspired Rembrandt. The collection has been shown in many museums, in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium, Berlin, Geneva and South Korea.

All prints shown on this website are copies of the impressions in the collection.