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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Bald Man in a Fur Cloak: Bust
ca. 1631
Etching on paper.
66 x 58 mm
RvR 445
NHD 99, V
Provenance:
Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock, Vienna and Frankfurt; Carl Schlösser (1827-1884), Elberfeld; Edward Smith Jr. (2nd half of 19th century), London; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Inscription:
Signed and dated upper left (not by Rembrandt), "RH(L) 163". Inscribed in margin, "pas commun / Vieillard á tete chauve / Gers. n. 302".
Notes:
Watermark: None.
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil. Before the perpendicular wrinkle between brows. (White and Boon)
Probably reworked by Van Vliet. (White and Boon)
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 30.
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