Cleveland Museum of Art
The Death of the Virgin
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-adad34d778fc
- Date
- 1639
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 124832
From LinkedCulture
In 1639, Rembrandt van Rijn filled one of the largest etching plates of his career with a scene that moves from grief to glory. The lower half crowds around the Virgin's deathbed with mourning apostles and attendants pressed close together, while above them a burst of radiant light breaks open the ceiling, tumbling angels and cherubs spilling from swirling clouds. That dramatic leap from near-black shadow to celestial glow is achieved through etching alone, no additional engraving, which made this print one of the most admired of the entire seventeenth century.
Written by LinkedCulture for its video on this object. Machine-generated (claude-sonnet-4-6), not yet reviewed by a person. It is not part of the museum’s record.
What the image shows
A religious scene with figures gathered around a central figure on a raised platform, surrounded by angels in the sky.
Generated by LinkedCulture from the photograph alone, without the museum’s catalogue text (Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct), and not yet reviewed by a person. It describes the picture, not the object’s history, and it is not part of the museum’s record.
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.