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Man Wearing a Close Cap: Bust (The Artist's Father?)

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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 421
NHD 60
Provenance: 
Robert Dighton (ca. 1752-1814), London; John Waterloo Wilson (1815-1883), Haarlem, Brussels and Paris; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription: 
Signed in monogram and dated lower center, "RHL 1630" (in state II).
Notes: 

Watermark: None.
Collector's mark [L.727/R. Dighton] at left bottom.
One of two impressions of state V in the Library (see RvR 420).
Slightly more heavily inked than RvR 420.

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