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The Card Player

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Card Player

1641
Etching on paper.
88 x 82 mm
RvR 212
NHD number
NHD 193, II
Notes
Watermark: None.
Most of shadow heavily reworked and darkened. White areas along top margin filled in. (White and Boon)
Provenance

Joseph Vallette (d. 1807), The Hague (Lugt 2478a); his sale, Amsterdam, 1807, 26-29 October, lot 128 ["De Kaartspeelder, meer en minder bewerkt in den achtergrond, 2 stuks"]; sold to Jan Yver (ca. 1747-1814), Amsterdam [for fl. 15.10]; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), Paris (Lugt 119); Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London and Arlesford (Lugt 1227); George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905 (Lugt 1509).

Associated names
Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876, former owner.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vallette, Joseph, d. 1807, former owner.
Yver, Jan, ca. 1747-1814, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School