Old Man with a Flowing Beard: Bust

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Old Man with a Flowing Beard: Bust
1631
Etching on paper.
68 x 66 mm
RvR 435
NHD 83, II
Provenance: 
George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Signed in monogram and dated upper left, "RHL 1631".

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Watermark: None.
Diagonal cross-hatching added in [triangular area of shadow between the left margin and the left shoulder]. Further wisps of hair added beside the left eye, so that on the left side of the face the hair is continuous from head to shoulder. (White and Boon)
Münz believed that the second state is not by Rembrandt. (White and Boon)

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