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The Artist's Mother Seated, in a Headdress: Half Length

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

The Artist's Mother Seated, in a Headdress: Half Length

1631
Etching on paper.
145 x 129 mm
RvR 463
NHD number
NHD 86, IV
Notes
Margins: 2-6 mm
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 462).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated lower right, "RHL 1631".
Watermark: Basilisk holding shield with bishop's crozier.
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