Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Man Wearing a Close Cap: Bust (The Artist's Father?)
1630
Etching, with touches of drypoint, on paper.
75 x 60 mm
RvR 420
NHD number
NHD 60
Notes
Watermark: None.
Münz believed that the plate may have been worked up from II onwards with the assistance of a pupil. Cf. the painting, in reverse, in the Mauritshuis, "The Hague" (Bredius 77). (White and Boon)
One of two impressions of state V in the Library (see RvR 421).
The plate generally reworked, not by Rembrandt, e.g. heavy diagonal shading on the shoulder on the left. (White and Boon)
Münz believed that the plate may have been worked up from II onwards with the assistance of a pupil. Cf. the painting, in reverse, in the Mauritshuis, "The Hague" (Bredius 77). (White and Boon)
One of two impressions of state V in the Library (see RvR 421).
The plate generally reworked, not by Rembrandt, e.g. heavy diagonal shading on the shoulder on the left. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated lower center, "RHL 1630" (in state II).
Provenance
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat, Bonn and Florence; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Associated names
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Liphart, Karl Eduard von, 1808-1891, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Liphart, Karl Eduard von, 1808-1891, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
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