G3610: Old Tobias Mocked by His Wife
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G3610
- People
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Georg Friedrich Schmidt, German (Berlin 1712 - 1775 Berlin)
After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
- Title
- Old Tobias Mocked by His Wife
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Der alte Tobias wird von seinem Weibe verspottet
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1773
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277829
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 20.5 × 23.5 cm (8 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
plate: 21.5 × 24 cm (8 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 22.2 × 25 cm (8 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: Rembrandt. Pinx.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: Der alte Tobias wird von ƒeinen Weibe Verƒpottet.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: G. F. Schmidt. fec. aqua forti, 1773. / Aus dem Cabinet des Herrn Director Céƒar.
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite, erased: 9 -
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, erased: 405 [?]
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, erased: 45
- collector's mark: lower right, blind stamp: GFS [in monogram] [Lugt 1004, mark of Georg Friedrich Schmidt]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712-1775), Berlin (Lugt 1004). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- iv/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- Jacoby 177; Wessely 161
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G3610
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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