Sheet of Studies including Head of the Artist, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman

c. 1632

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.9 x 10.5 cm (3 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 10.3 x 10.7 cm (4 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7081

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 363, State ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard (died 1784), London (Lugt 1420); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1760b), purchased from Richard Zinser; given to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, 1961.

  • Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.

1969

  • Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 67, 63.

1979

  • Self-Portraits: Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979.

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

2001

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

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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. 115, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: in graphite at lower center in later hand: B. 363, [indecipherable] II, H.90 II / Coll. Rudge [?]

Markings

recto: none; verso: Lessing J. Rosenwald and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65024476


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