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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3277
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Abraham Francen, Apothecary
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Abraham Francen, Art Dealer
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1657
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299893

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, engraving, and drypoint with plate tone on vellum (the reverse of a mariner's chart)
Technique
Etching, engraving and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 15.6 × 20 cm (6 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 15.8 × 20.4 cm (6 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: H. W. [Hermann Weber (Lugt 1383)]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Cl. 270 II
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with black ink numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 3277
  • design: verso, brown ink: compass headings from the earlier use of this parchment as a mariner's chart

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hermann Weber, Bonn (Lugt 1383), sale [Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, April 28, 1856, no. 388]. Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to his nephew William Gray, gift; to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/xii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 301, Bartsch 273.ii (v), Hind 291.iv (ix), R. 273

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3277
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist (unnumbered), repr. on cover
  • Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), p. 195, repr. p. 194 as fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • 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
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/2014 - 04/09/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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