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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Jupiter and Antiope: The Larger Plate
1659
Etching with drypoint on paper.
138 x 205 mm
RvR 288
NHD 311, II
Provenance:
Sir Edward Astley (1729-1802), Norfolk; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice et al. Rembrandt, experimental etcher. Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, 1969, no. 113.
Inscription:
Signed and dated lower center, "Rembrandt f 1659."
Notes:
An impression on white paper in which a film of ink has been left over the entire plate. The impression is unusually rich in drypoint. (Boston 1969, no. 113)
Before reworking and inscription. (White and Boon)
In the inventories of de Jonghe, de Burgy and Röver probably identical with the etching described as 'Venus and Satyr', the title accepted by Gersaint. (White and Boon)
One of two impressions of state I in the Library (see RvR 289).
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