Bust of an Old Bearded Man, Looking Down, Three Quarters Right

1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.1 x 11 cm (4 3/8 x 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.1.117

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 260, State ii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard [d. 1784], London (Lugt 1419); John Webster [1810-1891], Aberdeen (Lugt 1554); Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague (Lugt 2773); George Hibbert [1757-1837], London (Lugt 2849). Alfred Strölin [1871 - 1955] Paris; (liquidation sale of his property, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-28 June 1921, no. 367). Albert Elliot McVitty [1876-1948], Princeton, N.J.(Lugt 1862c); Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Parke-Bernet through Sessler 1949; given to the National Gallery of Art 1950

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2001

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

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. 84, state ii/iii.

Markings

John Barnard [d. 1784], London (Lugt 1419); John Webster [1810-1891], Aberdeen (Lugt 1554); Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague (Lugt 2773); George Hibbert [1757-1837], London (Lugt 2849); Albert Elliot McVitty [1876-1948], Princeton, N.J.(Lugt 1862c); Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia (Lugt 1760b)

Wikidata ID

Q65082121


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