The Triumph of Mordecai
by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn, Etching and drypoint, only state, 174 x 215 mm
Catalogue number: Bartsch 40.
In this composition Rembrandt follows a painting by his master Pieter Lastman that takes its basic narrative and compositional terms from an engraving by Lucas van Leyden that in turn is based in part on D�rer’s famous engraving Knight, Death and the Devil.