Sheet of Studies including Head of the Artist, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman
c. 1632
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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