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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23935
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
The Hog
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1643
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198162

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint with plate tone on white antiique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 14.5 × 18.8 cm (5 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 14.8 × 19.2 cm (5 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: vero, blue stamp with added graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M23935
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: r. r / 1 [illeg]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 392 / prsfmx
  • inscription: in plate, lower right corner: Rembrandt f 1643.
  • inscription: in lower margin, at left, in brown ink: 152
  • watermark: [a large and complete watermark; illegible but probably a basilisk, a mark that Hinterding dates, v, 2, p. 415, to 1641.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henri Vever, auction sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1998., 1998. The print was retained in the family until its sale, together with other old-master prints from the Vever collection, on 30 June 1998, Sotheby's, London. It was purchased jointly at this sale by R. M. Light, Artemis, and Nicholas Stogdon.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 215, Bartsch 157, Hind 204

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
M23935
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The print shows the inky plate edges at left and bottom characteristic of the earliest first-state impressions.

Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 48, repr.
  • Clifford S. Ackley and Ronni Baer, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 2003), cat.no.76; pp.48, 123, 145-46, 318
  • Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 98, repr.
  • Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2009), p. 126, fig. 10.9

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt's Journey: Painting, Draftsman, Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/26/2003 - 01/18/2004; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/14/2004 - 05/09/2004
  • Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006

Verification Level

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