Student at a Table by Candlelight

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Student at a Table by Candlelight
ca. 1642
Etching on paper.
147 x 133 mm
RvR 227
NHD 213, I
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Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), Paris; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Signed lower right, barely visible, "Rembrandt".

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Watermark: None.
O.H. Barnard, in "Craddock and Barnard cat.", no.33 (1935), noted that the first six states described by Rovinski and in other catalogues are only a copy, in two states, used by Schabaelje (repro. "Emblemata Sacra" 1654). (White and Boon)

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