Bust of an Old Bearded Man, Looking Down, Three Quarters Right

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Bust of an Old Bearded Man, Looking Down, Three Quarters Right
1631
Etching, with touches of burin on paper.
119 x 117 mm
RvR 343
NHD 84, II
Provenance: 
Henry Brodhurst (ca. 1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Inscription: 

Signed in monogram and dated lower right, "RHL 1631".
Watermark: Horn with strap, above letters "HB".

Notes: 

[An area of the bust and his left shoulder] lightly burnished, leaving fine lines from the burnisher. (White and Boon)
Cf. the painting, attributed to Rembrandt and Lievens, of "A bust length study of an Old Man", in the Museum, Schwerin. Münz believed that the etching is a reversed copy, probably by van Vliet, and later finished by Rembrandt, of a drawing at Weimar (H.d.G. 521) after the painting of "A Hermit Reading" (Bredius 605), in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. (White and Boon)

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
School: 
Dutch
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Print
Department: 
Drawings and Prints