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This magnificent etching depicts one of Rembrandt’s favorite biblical subjects - - the moment that Jesus revealed Himself as the Messiah to the woman of Samaria. According to the Gospel of John, Christ and his Apostles stopped in Samaria on their way from Judea to Galilee and rested by Jacob's well near the town of Sychar. While Jesus was resting alone, a Samarian woman came to Jacob's well to get water. Jesus asked the Samarian woman to give Him a drink. Jesus revealed that He was the Messiah, and told the Samarian woman that "whosoever drinketh of the water I shall give them shall never thirst and have everlasting life.”

In Rembrandt's interpretation of this Biblical story, Jesus and the Samarian woman are shown talking near Jacob's well with a picturesque ruin in exquisite detail drawn in the background. This story is also the subject of three of Rembrandt's paintings, a drawing and another etching.

“Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Among Ruins “ B. 71
Signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1634

4-11/16" x 4-3/16"
Second and final state

Posthumous Impression, 1998

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