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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Self Portrait in a Slant Fur Cap: Bust

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, reworked by a Pupil
1606-1669

Self Portrait in a Slant Fur Cap: Bust

ca. 1631
Etching and engraving on paper.
62 x 56 mm
RvR 16
NHD number
NHD 97, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil.
Failure in biting on right cheek. (White and Boon)
Probably reworked by Van Vliet. (White and Boon)
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 14.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated upper left (not by Rembrandt), "RH 1631".
Provenance

Hugh Howard (1675-1737), London; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Howard, Hugh, 1675-1737, former owner.
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography

Schuckman, Christiaan, et al. Rembrandt & Van Vliet : a collaboration on copper. Amsterdam : Museum het Rembrandthuis-Rembrandt Information Centre, 1996, no. 14.

Classification
Department
Century prints
School