Girl with a Basket

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Girl with a Basket
ca. 1642
Etching on paper.
87 x 60 mm
RvR 474
NHD 209, III
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John McGowan (2nd half of 18th century), Edinburgh; Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London and Arlesford; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Several vertical parallel lines added beneath the cap, and nearly horizontal lines to the bridge of the nose. The line of the cheek drawn in between her right eye and the nose. Plate trimmed upper right, so margin is now vertical. (White and Boon) Cf. the drawing of "An old and a young Woman in discussion" in Stockholm (Benesch 738). (White and Boon)

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