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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13643
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1636
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261772

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15 × 12.7 cm (5 7/8 × 5 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lover edge toward left: Rembrandt. f. / 1636
  • watermark: recto, center left, cut off: Arms of Amsterdam [identified by Hinterding, p. 37, as ZZ.zz, that is, not photographed; too partial to make a more precise identification from his plates. Generally speaking, Arms of Amsterdam watermarks appear on Rembrandt impressions only in the mid 1650s and later.]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 13,643
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 306/2[?]72 / [illeg.]5[?]30 / [illeg.] B. 365.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 157, Bartsch 365, Hind 145, Rovinsky 365

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt, by exchange
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
M13643
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 57 on p. 163 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/17/2019 - 11/21/2019

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