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Slight Study of a Woman's Head

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Slight Study of a Woman's Head

ca. 1635
Etching on paper.
64 x 56 mm
RvR 487
NHD number
NHD 146
Notes
Watermark: None.
Etching attributed to Rembrandt. (White and Boon)
Only one state.
The print was not accepted by de Vries and de Roever, who attributed it to Hoogstraten; Seidlitz rejected it. M|nz attributed to Bol, and Hollstein to Hoogstraten. Biörklund has rightly pointed out that this head is related to a Rembrandt drawing only known through an etching of J. D. Laurentz (Benesch 31 6a). He dates the print, however, too early. (White and Boon)
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford, London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire (1786-1859); John Heywood Hawkins, London and Bignor Park (1803-1877); Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, London and Dalkeith (1806-1884); George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School