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Beggar Seated on a Bank

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Beggar Seated on a Bank

1630
Etching on paper.
116 x 70 mm
RvR 254
NHD number
NHD 50, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
One of three impressions in the Library (see RvR 253 & RvR 255).
The plate has been cleaned and its edges trimmed.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated lower center, "RHL 1630".
Provenance

François Debois (d. ca.1845), Paris; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Debois, François, d. ca. 1845, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School