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Bald-Headed Man in Profile Right: Small Bust, The Artist's Father (?)

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Bald-Headed Man in Profile Right: Small Bust, The Artist's Father (?)
1630
Etching on paper.
57 x 43 mm
RvR 410
NHD 61, II
Provenance: 
John Barnard (d. 1784), London; George Hibbert (1757-1837), London; August Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription: 

Signed in monogram and dated, "RHL 1630".

Notes: 

Probably later impression.
The plate edges have been trimmed and the ground cleaned.

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