Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
(Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)
“Old man shading his eyes with his hand”, c. 1639
etching and drypoint: 14,7 x 12,2 cm
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (Hinterding D.c). (c. 1639).
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Notes
A fine, early impression of this scarce print, with selective wiping of the ink downward from the beard and collar.
According to Hinterding, impressions in the first state were from Rembrandt’s lifetime. The copper plate for the subject was subsequently owned by Jean de Bary, the Amsterdam art dealer, during the mid-1700s, and later by J. Treble, a Berlin collector, around 1770, who had the plate reworked by the artist Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712-1775), adding a complete background to Rembrandt’s work.
Impressions of this print are held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum.
Literature
Bartsch 259; The New Hollstein no. 175: First state (of III)
Plate not in existence, lost after c. 1770 – with Nowell-Usticke (1967):
R – a very uncommon, attractive print
Provenance
- Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, verso with the collection and duplicate stamp (Lugt 2398 and 1633), there inscribed in brown ink as ‘Excellent.’
- Private collection, Germany
- Karl & Faber, Munich
- Private collection, The Netherlands