Self Portrait in a Heavy Fur Cap: Bust

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Self Portrait in a Heavy Fur Cap: Bust
1631.
Etching on paper.
63 x 57 mm
RvR 20
NHD 80
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".
Watermark: [Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over letters "BA", (Strasbourg lily).

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Only one state.
The portrait was originally conceived without a hat, since the top of the head with hair can be clearly seen. (White and Boon)

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