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The Artist's Mother with Her Hand on Her Chest

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Artist's Mother with Her Hand on Her Chest
1631
Etching on paper.
94 x 66 mm
RvR 464
NHD 87, I
Provenance: 
Johann Jakob von Franck (d. 1828), Vienna; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Inscription: 

Signed in monogram and dated lower center, "RHL 1631".

Notes: 

Watermark: None.
Before [the additional] work [of the state II]. (White and Boon)
Münz believed that already in the first state van Vliet worked over Rembrandt's original. (White and Boon)
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 11.1.

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