Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher

1646
Etching, engraving and drypoint on paper.
278 x 188 mm
RvR 389
NHD number
NHD 235, II
Notes
Watermark: None.
One of three impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 388 & RvR 390).
Upper margin is cleaned and the slip of the graver burnished out.
Wide margins: 27 mm at the left, 23-24 mm at the right, 26 mm at the top, and 37 mm at the bottom.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated upper center, "Rembrandt 1646".
Provenance

Henry Brodhurst (ca. 1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Brodhurst, Henry, active 1849-1872, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School