Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
An Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap (B., Holl. 265; New Holl. 182; H. 170)
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
(Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
An Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap (B., Holl. 265; New Holl. 182; H. 170)
Etching and drypoint, 1640, a very fine, early impression of the first state (of two), before the slipped stroke beside the sitter’s left eye appears in the first state, printing with much burr on the hand and lower borderlines, on fine laid paper
Sheet: 162 by 142 mm; 6⅜ by 5⅝ in.
Plate: 152 by 140 mm; 6 by 5½ in.
E. Hinterding and J. Rutgers, The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, Rembrandt, no. 182 (another impression cited)
The sitter’s fur cap is a Polish kutschma, which occurs in several of Rembrandt’s drawings. A drawing in red chalk on light brown paper, measuring 60 by 63 mm, is in the Amsterdam Museum (Benesch 346), shows a similar bust of a bearded man, in reverse. The etching, like the drawing – which is much smaller – was presumably made from life; the costume, pose and length are similar in both, and the sitter is likely to be the one and the same. It is likely that the drawing represents the artist’s initial sketch, before the portrait was elaborated in the etching. It has been suggested that it represents Nicolaes de Bye.
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