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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Artist's Mother: Head Only, Full Face
1628
Etching on paper.
63 x 64 mm
RvR 469
NHD 6, II
Provenance:
Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Inscription:
Signed in monogram and dated, "RHL 1628" (the '2' reversed in state II).
Notes:
Watermark: None.
In the present impression the face is printed lighter than the cap.
Margins: 0.5-1.5 mm
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 468).
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