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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4929
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1647
Places
Creation Place: Europe
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279353

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, engraving, and drypoint on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 24 × 17.7 cm (9 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 27.6 × 21.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: IHS [Hinterding v. 2, p. 156, with the initials IR below IHS, unidentified twinmark]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 4929
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink, upper right corner of margin: [paraph of zigzag lines in an overall triangluar shape]
  • inscription: verso, brown ink number followed by a graphite notation: 25 [illeg.]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Bl 172 B 278.280 / Le plus bel exemplaire connu / Ephraim Bonus / G. 258.
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: O.A.O [within an oblong border; Count Alexandre Borisovitch Lobanoff-Rostovsky (Lugt 2005)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alexander Borisovich Lobanoff-Rostovsky, St. Petersburg (Lugt 2005). Dr. Sippmann, sold; to Harvard College, 1882

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 237, Bartsch 278, Hind 226, Rovinski 278

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G4929
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Clifford S. Ackley and Ronni Baer, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 2003), cat. no.72, pp.140, 142, 318

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

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