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Self Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face Dark: Bust

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Self Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face Dark: Bust
1633
Etching on paper.
132 x 103 mm
RvR 21
NHD 120, II
Provenance: 
Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Inscription: 

Signed and dated lower center, "Rembrandt f. 1633".

Notes: 

Further shading added to sleeve and breast, as well as to the highlights on the hair, the back of the cap and under the right eye. The moustache is extended over the contour of the right cheek. (White and Boon)
Plate cut down [from 140 x 115-118 mm].
Signature added.

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Artist page: 
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
School: 
Dutch
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Print
Department: 
Drawings and Prints