The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right

c. 1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts an elderly woman seated in a chair, facing to the left. She has defined facial features, with wrinkles, and a solemn expression. Her head is covered by a dark headscarf. She wears a dark cloak over her shoulders. The background is a light, plain wall, with minimal details of a chair and table. The woman is not wearing any visible jewelry or holding any objects.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.9 x 13 cm (5 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 15.7 x 13.5 cm (6 3/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.44

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 343, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heneage Finch Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58). (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1923 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 64, 63.

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. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 91, state ii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65082080

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