Jan Asselyn

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

about 1647

Medium/TechniqueEtching, drypoint, and burnishing on Japanese paper

DimensionsPlatemark: 20.9 x 16.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.9 x 16.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange

Accession number54.133

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ClassificationsPrints

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InscriptionsIn plate LR: Rembr / f 16 [date not clearly legible] Later inscriptions or marks: Recto LC in pen & brown ink: krabbetje Verso LR stamped in black ink-- mark of the Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58) Verso LR stamped in blue ink-- mark of the Duke D’Arenberg (Lugt 567) Verso LC in graphite pencil: fL [?] 219 / 277 Verso LC in partly erased graphite pencil: IIe etat de la / [col. chalon or crabje FG?] / GB e [this part underlined] / No. 77 CB 74 [?] Verso CL in graphite pencil: [a small cypher resembling a notation of the sqaure root of 2 followed by a dot

ProvenanceHeneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (b. 1786 - d. 1859; Lugt 58), London and Warwickshire, England; 1846, probably sold with the Aylesford collection to Samuel Woodburn (dealer; b. 1786 - d. 1853), London. Dukes D'Arenberg, Brussels and Nordkirchen, Westphalia (Lugt 567); after about 1918, sold from the Arenberg collection to a London dealer and, in 1952, sold to William Schab (dealer), New York [see note]; 1954, exchanged by Schab with the MFA. (Accession Date: March 11, 1954)

[1] According to Lugt (1956 edition), online at marquesdecollections.fr, a group of prints from the Arenberg collection was sold after World War I to a London dealer and in 1952 to Schab.