A Bald Man in Profile (The Artist's Father?), 1630

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 6.7 x 5.7 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.) cut to platemark

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 292, iii/iii

Accession Number

2011.114.1

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: RHL / 1630

Provenance

Karl J. Gottstein, Vienna, early 20th century (Lugt 1956) (check); (his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 23-24 November 1925, no. 863). (P & D Colnaghi & Co., London). Associated American Artists, New York. Private Collection, United States. (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Associated American Artists
Boerner LLC, C.G.
Boerner LLC, C.G.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Gottstein, Karl J.
Private Collection, United States

Bibliography

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969: no. 292, iii/iii

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. 62, state v/v.