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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, Writing-Master: The Smaller Plate
ca. 1658
Etching, engraving and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper (two sheets pasted together).
258 x 190 mm
RvR 393
Provenance:
Edward Vernon Utterson (1775 or 1776-1856), London; Henry Brodhurst (ca.1860), Dale Close and Mansfield; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
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Watermark: None.
Compass and set squares added to the wall beside the window. Shading added to Coppenol's hands, the quill pen, the candle, and the side of the baldacchino. Two lines added to Coppenol's cravat. The circular disk in the right background is worked over and darkened. (The darkening of the boy's left hand is due to inking and not to reworking - cf. I and III.) (White and Boon)
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