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Beggar With His Left Hand Extended

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Beggar With His Left Hand Extended

ca. 1629
Etching on paper.
63 x 41 mm
RvR 228
NHD number
NHD 30, VII
Notes
Watermark: None.
Münz believed that only the first state was by Rembrandt and that the additions made from the second state onwards were the work of van Vliet. (White and Boon)
Vertical shading added to vertical strip on cloak.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in monogram upper left (not by Rembrandt), "RHL 1631" (in state III).
Provenance

Prince Alexandre Borisovitch Lobanoff-Rostovsky (d. ca. 1880), St. Petersburg; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Lobanoff-Rostovsky, Alexandre Borisovitch, Prince, d. ca. 1880, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School