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The Artist's Mother Seated, in a Headdress: Half Length

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Artist's Mother Seated, in a Headdress: Half Length
1631
Etching on paper.
145 x 129 mm
RvR 463
NHD 86, IV
Provenance: 
George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription: 

Signed in monogram and dated lower right, "RHL 1631".
Watermark: Basilisk holding shield with bishop's crozier.

Notes: 

Margins: 2-6 mm
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 462).

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