Sheet with Two Studies: a Tree, and the Upper Part of a Head of the Artist Wearing a Velvet Cap
c. 1642
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Rembrandt van Rijn
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (sheet trimmed to platemark): 8 × 7.1 cm (3 1/8 × 2 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.7202
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 372, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Edward Astley (Lugt 2775); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); 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.
1961
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.
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. 219, only.
Inscriptions
recto: at upper left in brown ink in later hand: 230
Markings
recto: Sir Edward Astley [Lugt 2775]
Wikidata ID
Q65024743