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Bald Man in a Fur Cloak: Bust

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, reworked by a Pupil
1606-1669

Bald Man in a Fur Cloak: Bust

ca. 1631
Etching on paper.
66 x 58 mm
RvR 446
NHD number
NHD 99, VIII
Notes
Watermark: None.
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil. Wrinkle [perpendicular wrinkle between brows] added; shadows reworked. (White and Boon)
Probably reworked by Van Vliet. (White and Boon)
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 30.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated, "RH(L) 1631" (not by Rembrandt).
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Bibliography

Schuckman, Christiaan, et al. Rembrandt & Van Vliet: a collaboration on copper. Amsterdam : Museum het Rembrandthuis-Rembrandt Information Centre, 1996, no. 30.

Classification
Department
Century prints
School