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Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook

1658
Etching and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper.
160 x 80 mm
RvR 284
NHD number
NHD 309, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
Early impressions have rough edges and in the early catalogues are referred to as a first state. On later impressions, Barnard (cat. no.9, 1921) found a diagonal scratch below the middle of the top margin, which Hind and Münz classed as a second state. Hollstein suggested that Rembrandt used the piece of copper he removed from B. 70, of the previous year (see I. de Bruyn in "Oud Hollan", 1939 (lvi) p.15). Possibly identical with the etching described in de Jonghe's inventory as 'Vroutgen aan de put', and in Röver's inventory with one of 'twee andere liefhebberijtjes'. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated upper left, "Rembrandt f. 1658".
Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Carl Schlösser (1827-1884), Elberfeld; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F., 1778-1864, former owner.
Schlösser, Carl, 1827-1884, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School