The Artist's Mother Seated, in an Oriental Headdress

1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image shows an elderly woman from the waist up, seated in a side profile position facing to the right. She has aged features, including wrinkles, a pointed nose, and neutral expression. Her hair is covered with a cap or scarf, and she wears a textured garment. One hand is on her lap, with no visible jewelry. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7089

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 348, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Albertina, Vienna (duplicate); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Richard H. Zinser,1940; given to the National Gallery of Art, 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 2.

1958

  • Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt from the Rosenwald and Widener Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.

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. 86, state ii/vi.

Wikidata ID

Q65024494

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