Portrait of a Boy in Profile
1641
Rembrandt van Rijn
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: 9.4 × 6.8 cm (3 11/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
sheet: 10.6 × 7.8 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.7187
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 310, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul Davidsohn [1839-1924?], Berlin (Lugt 654); Cambridge University Library (duplicate, Lugt 2475); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased Boerner Sale (lot #635); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930
Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.
1932
Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.
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. 195, state ii/ii.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, at upper left: Rembrandt f. 1641; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: B. 310; at center in graphite in later hand: 170 [upsidedown]; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: A [? indecipherable]
Markings
recto: none; verso: University Library, Cambridge (Lugt 2475); Paul Davidsohn (Lugt 754); Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); and National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65024715