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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Bald Man in a Fur Cloak: Bust
ca. 1631
Etching on paper.
66 x 58 mm
RvR 446
NHD 99, VIII
Provenance:
Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription:
Signed and dated, "RH(L) 1631" (not by Rembrandt).
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Watermark: None.
Etching by Rembrandt only known in later states reworked by a pupil. Wrinkle [perpendicular wrinkle between brows] added; shadows reworked. (White and Boon)
Probably reworked by Van Vliet. (White and Boon)
See Schuckman et al. 1996, no. 30.
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