Portrait of a Boy in Profile, 1641

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 310, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.7187

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

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]

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: University Library, Cambridge (Lugt 2475); Paul Davidsohn (Lugt 754); Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); and National Gallery of Art

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

Davidsohn, Paul
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1930: Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

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.