Three Heads of Women, One Lightly Etched

c. 1637

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Rembrandt van Rijn

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.9 × 10.5 cm (5 1/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 13.3 × 10.9 cm (5 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7233

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 367, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased 1930 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); gift to the NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

  • Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1932

  • Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 162, iii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65024813

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