The Third Oriental Head
1635
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 15.7 x 13.3 cm (6 3/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
sheet: 17.1 x 14.6 cm (6 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1944.5.131
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 288, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Nagautuck, CT (Lugt 1384a); (Richard Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1944; gift to NGA, 1944.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958, no cat.
1961
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.
1966
Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 101.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC., 1969, no. 75, 64.
1972
Rare Etchings by G.B. and G.D. Tiepolo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1972, not in cat.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, no cat.
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. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 151, state only.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, at upper left: Rembrandt / geretuck [r and g in reverse] / 1635; verso: at top center in graphite in later hand: B.288; at bottom in graphite in later hand: 27 M 444
Markings
recto: none; verso: Joseph Whittemore, stamped twice (Lugt 1384a) and National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)
Watermarks
fleur de lis in shield
Wikidata ID
Q65024922