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Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher'

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher'
1639
Etching and drypoint on paper.
250 x 204 mm
RvR 391
NHD 172, I
Provenance: 
Jan Six (1618-1700), Amsterdam; Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776-1845), Hague and Soelen; Henry Brodhurst (ca. 1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription: 

Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over letters "WR", (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt. f. 1639".

Notes: 

The face is only lightly sketched in. (White and Boon)

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