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Self Portrait with Raised Sabre

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Self Portrait with Raised Sabre

1634
Etching with touches of burin on paper.
124 x 102 mm
RvR 22
NHD number
NHD 134, II
Notes
Plate reduced from 124 x 108 mm to 124 x 102 mm, removing half of the R of the signature.
The second borderline on the right, and the part of the saber extending over the first line removed. (White and Boon)
Three collectors' marks on verso: [L58/ Aylesford].
Trimmed within plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated upper left, "Rembrandt f.1634".
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York ; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School