Medea: or The Marriage of Jason and Creusa (B., Holl. 112; H. 235)

細節

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Medea: or The Marriage of Jason and Creusa (B., Holl. 112; H. 235)
etching with drypoint, 1648, watermark Foolscap with five-pointed Collar (cf. A. & F., p. 110, M.a., also cited on a first state of this print), a fine, atmospheric impression of the first state (of five), with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark, with a pen and ink borderline, minor defects on the reverse presumably caused by the removal of an old support, a horizontal crease on the reverse not showing through
(FPR 53)
P., S. 240 x 176 mm.

來源

Julian Marshall (L. 1494)
Paul Mathey (L. 2100b)
André Jean Hachette (L. 132)
Alphonse Hirsch (?) (L. 133)
Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1991, lot 129

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拍品專文

In Greek legend Medea, wife of Jason, was a passionate and jealous woman who fled with Jason when he returned to Greece after capturing the Golden Fleece. When he later deserted her to marry another woman Medea stopped at nothing to gain her revenge, even murdering her two children, his new wife and her father-in-law.

Medea: or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa was a play written by one of Rembrandt's most important patrons, Jan Six. The image does not illustrate a scene from the play, but is an evocation of its theme. Medea is depicted lurking in the shadows with the instruments of her revenge while the wedding of Jason and Creusa, presided over by Juno, unfolds in a majestic architectural space above. In the fourth state (the published state) four lines of text are added below identifying Jason, not as a hero, but an adulterer, and Medea as a wronged wife 'unjustly cast aside.'