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Grotesque Profile: Man in a High Cap

Reworked by a Pupil Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Grotesque Profile: Man in a High Cap

ca. 1629
Etching on paper.
37 x 25 mm (arched)
Purchase.
1947.6
NHD number
NHD 35, I
Notes
Back of neck nearly white. Right side of cap band unshaded. (White and Boon)
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil.
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 31.
The model is very similar to B.135 and to B.399. Münz believes that already in the first state van Vliet had worked over Rembrandt's original. (White and Boon)
Provenance

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (duplicate); Mrs. George A. Martin, sale Parke-Bernet, New York, Feb 11, 1947, no. 236; purchased through Knoedler.

Associated names
Martin, George A., Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography

Schuckman, Christiaan, et al. Rembrandt & Van Vliet: a collaboration on copper. Amsterdam : Museum het Rembrandthuis-Rembrandt Information Centre, 1996, no. 31.

Classification
Department
Century prints
School