Peasant With His Hands Behind His Back

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Peasant With His Hands Behind His Back
1629
Etching, with touches of drypoint, on paper.
59 x 48 mm
RvR 208
NHD 23, VI
Provenance: 
Dr. Carl von Guérard (d.1904), Elberfeld; Otto Gerstenberg (1848-1935), Berlin; purchased from Harlow & Co., December 1922.
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Signed in monogram and dated upper left (by Rembrandt?), "RHL 1631" (in state II).

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Watermark: None.
Further shading added on neck, both on the shadow and the highlight. (White and Boon)
One of three impressions of state IV in the Library (see RvR 209 & RvR 210).

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