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Grotesque Profile: Man in a High Cap

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, reworked by a Pupil
1606-1669

Grotesque Profile: Man in a High Cap

ca. 1629
Etching on paper.
37 x 25 mm (arched)
RvR 448
NHD number
NHD 35, V
Notes
Watermark: None.
Cross-hatching added to the back of the neck, some horizontal lines of shading added to the right side of the cap band. The shadow on the left of the cap appears to have been burnished and then reshaded more lightly. (White and Boon)
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil.
Provenance

Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School