Elsje Christiaens Hanging on a Gibbet

1664

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and grayish brown wash on heavy brownish paper
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. (15.8 x 8.0 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.803
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Rembrandt van Rijn. Elsje Christiaens Hanging on a Gibbet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Elsje Christiaens Hanging on a Gibbet — Rembrandt van Rijn. 1664.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and grayish brown wash on heavy brownish paper. Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. (15.8 x 8.0 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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