Head of an Old Man in High Fur Cap: Bust

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Head of an Old Man in High Fur Cap: Bust
ca. 1629
Etching on paper.
44 x 32 mm
RvR 415
NHD 37
Provenance: 
Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lubeck and Dresden; Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (1825-1879), Leipzig; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Watermark: None.
Doubtful whether by Rembrandt. By Van Vliet or another pupil such as Hoogstraten. Münz accepts the print as genuine. (White and Boon)
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil. (White and Boon)
Only one state.
Trimmed along the platemark.

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