Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1640
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Overall: 5 7/8 × 5 3/8 in. (14.9 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet: 5 11/16 × 5 7/16 in. (14.5 × 13.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.35
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper left: Rembrandt f / 1640; inscribed, on verso, in graphite: W.S....1772 / No 55 (Lugt 2650b); stamped, on verso, in brown: collection marks of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (Lugt 1606 and 2482); inscribed, in brown ink, on verso: No 245 D
Course History
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
Exhibition History
Images of Old Age, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-May 26, 1983.
Rembrandt to Manet, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-February 13, 1977.
Rembrandt: Master of Light and Shadow; Etchings from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 8-September 17, 2006.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection; to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 182 i/ii without slipped stroke; Bartsch, Hollstein 265; Hind 170
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