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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4930
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Death of the Virgin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1639
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279339

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint with added mezzotint on white 18th-c. antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 39.5 × 31.2 cm (15 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Rembrandt f. 1639
  • watermark: Grapes [Hinterding v. 2, p. 150, Z.z. There is also a countermark: unidentified but perhaps MOYEN NORMANDIE I GERMAIN, which Hinterding v. 2, p. 234, gives as a countermark to Grapes, found on an impression of The Death of the Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.]
  • inscription: in plate, lowre left: Rembrandt f. 1639
  • collector's mark: verso, pale purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 4930

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/v (posthumous)
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 173, Bartsch 99, Hind 161, Rovinski 99

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G4930
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), repr. as fig. 19 on p.23 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 54 on p. 154 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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