Male Nude, Seated and Standing

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Male Nude, Seated and Standing
ca. 1646
Etching on paper.
194 x 128 mm
RvR 274
NHD 233, III
Provenance: 
Fountaine Walker (2nd half of 19th century), Ness Castle, Inverness; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
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Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over letters "WR", (Strasbourg lily). Fragment.

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Several horizontal lines added on the right part of the white space on the cushion. Several vertical lines added very lightly in drypoint on the white spaces on the shoulder and neck of the seated man. Fine parallel shading added with the burin to the side of his head. The white space inside the standing man's left elbow shaded over. (White and Boon)

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