Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Artist's Mother: Head Only, Full Face
1628
Etching on paper.
63 x 64 mm
RvR 468
NHD number
NHD 6, II
Notes
Watermark: None.
Hood completed. Signed and dated. Plate cut [from 85 x 72 mm]. (White and Boon)
Margins: 1-1.5 mm at the bottom, and trimmed within the platemark at the other three sides.
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 469), this one earlier impression than RvR 469.
Hood completed. Signed and dated. Plate cut [from 85 x 72 mm]. (White and Boon)
Margins: 1-1.5 mm at the bottom, and trimmed within the platemark at the other three sides.
One of two impressions of state II in the Library (see RvR 469), this one earlier impression than RvR 469.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated center left, "RHL 1628" (the '2' reversed in state II).
Provenance
John Barnard (d.1784), London; August Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Associated names
Barnard, John, d. 1784, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
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