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Peasant With His Hands Behind His Back

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Peasant With His Hands Behind His Back

1629
Etching, with touches of drypoint, on paper.
59 x 48 mm
RvR 210
NHD number
NHD 23, VI
Notes
Watermark: None.
No margins; trimmed within the platemark.
One of three impressions of state IV in the Library (see RvR 208 & RvR 209).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated upper left (by Rembrandt?), "RHL 1631" (in state II).
Provenance

George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School