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Old Woman Seated in a Cottage, with a String of Onions on the Wall

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Old Woman Seated in a Cottage, with a String of Onions on the Wall

ca. 1629
Etching on paper.
126 x 85 mm
RvR 207
NHD number
NHD 26, II
Notes
Plate cut down [from 128 x 85 mm]. Signature and date added. Borderline added. Münz believed that the second and third states were the work of a van Vliet. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in monogram and dated upper right (not by Rembrandt), "Rt. 1631" (in state II).
Watermark: none.
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; John Heywood Hawkins (1803-1877), London and Bignor Park; Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London and Dalkeith; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner.
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School