Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Family Receiving Alms
1648
Etching and drypoint on paper.
165 x 128 mm
RvR 258
NHD number
NHD 243, II
Notes
Door-post worked over with very fine cross-hatching. The shadow cast by the boy's jacket, the girl's bodice and elsewhere, reworked with very fine shading in drypoint. Four short verticals now shade white spot at back of cap of the almsgiver. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower right, "Rembrandt. f. 1648".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "WR", (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over "WR", (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Provenance
Carl Julius Kollmann (1820-1875), Dresden; Joachim Sagert-Friedenau (2nd half of 19th century?), Berlin; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Associated names
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Kollmann, Carl Julius, 1820-1875, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Sagert-Friedenau, Joachim, 19th cent., former owner.
Kollmann, Carl Julius, 1820-1875, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Sagert-Friedenau, Joachim, 19th cent., former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
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