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St. Jerome Kneeling in Prayer, Looking Down

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

St. Jerome Kneeling in Prayer, Looking Down

1635
Etching on paper.
114 x 80 mm
RvR 162
NHD number
NHD 142, I
Notes
Watermark: None
Impression more contrasty than RvR 161; figure of St. Jerome retouched with brush in gray.
One of two impressions in the Library (see RvR 161).
Only one state.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated upper right, "Rembrandt f.1635" ('d' in reverse and '5' hardly legible).
Provenance

August Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Artaria, August, 1807-1893, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School