The Rat Catcher

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Rat Catcher
1632
Etching on paper.
140 x 125 mm
RvR 188
NHD 111, III
Provenance: 
Joseph Crawhall (1821-1893), New-Castle-on-Tyne; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Signed in monogram and dated lower right, "RHL 1632" (the '3' and the '2' both reversed).

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The foliage shaded with parallel diagonal lines with the burin. (White and Boon)

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