G3284: Jan Six

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G3284

People

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

Jan Six

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1647

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/279709

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on warm tan Japanese paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 24.7 × 18.7 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 26 × 18.8 cm (10 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: EV., Debr. 56 / L. H 55. _. _.
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: EHG
• inscription: under image, in plate: Rembrandt. f. 16[in reverse]47[in reverse]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

ii/v

Standard Reference Number

B. 285, H. 228, R,. 285

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G3284

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 316, p. 271, repr.
• Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist (unnumbered)
• Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• Andrew C. Weislogel and Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt's Etchings, exh. cat., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, 2017), pp. 15, 34, 38, 87-90, cat. no. 10, repr. p. 89

Exhibition History

• Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000
• Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006
• Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt's Etchings, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 09/23/2017 - 12/17/2017; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 02/06/2018 - 05/13/2018

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