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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M6569
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and His Family Receiving Alms
Other Titles
Former Title: Beggars at the Door of a House
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1648
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262311

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with plate tone on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 16.2 × 12.8 cm (6 3/8 × 5 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge, right: Rembrandt . f. 1648.
  • collector's mark: verso, graphite: D [monogram with other letters; perhaps Hippolyte Destailleur (Lugt 1303)]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 176 / No. 4709- / W. n[?] 134 / 20. / cl. 173 / 2- / 176

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/v (posthumous)
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 243, Bartsch 176, Hind 233, R. 176

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles L. Kuhn
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
M6569
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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