Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Petrus Sylvius?), 1637

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.6 × 8.2 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

sheet: 15.5 × 12.3 cm (6 1/8 × 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 268, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1955.6.15

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at upper left: Rembrandt / f 1637; verso: at upper left, in graphite, in later hand: 268; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: B. 268 II; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-186 [upside-down]

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: at lower left, circle stamped in black ink [not enough information to identify in Lugt, though possibly Henry Brodhurst, Lugt 1296?]

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. 164, state ii/ii.