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The Ship of Fortune

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Ship of Fortune

1633
Etching on paper.
113 x 166 mm
RvR 176
NHD number
NHD 123, II
Notes
Watermark: None.
Cross-hatching added to the shading on Fortune's back in etching.
Plate reduced [from 113 x 184 mm].
The signature, partly burnished out, covered with shading. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower right (on the boat), "Rembrandt.f.1633".
Provenance

Johann Carl Diedrich Hebich (1818-1891), Hamburg; Gerhardt Joachim Schmidt (?;1742-1801), Hamburg; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Hebich, Johann Carl Diedrich, 1818-1891, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Schmidt, Gerhardt Joachim, 1742-1801, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School