REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Old Man Shading his Eyes with his Hand.
Etching and drypoint. Usticke's first state (e) (of 5); New Hollstein's first state (of 3). According to Hinterding, impressions in the first state, like the current work, 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.
circa 1639
140x113 mm; 5 1/2x4 1/2 inches, narrow margins.
Bartsch 259; New Hollstein 175.
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Etching and drypoint. Usticke's first state (e) (of 5); New Hollstein's first state (of 3). According to Hinterding, impressions in the first state, like the current work, 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.
circa 1639
140x113 mm; 5 1/2x4 1/2 inches, narrow margins.
Bartsch 259; New Hollstein 175.
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