Portrait of a Boy in Profile
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1641
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 3 11/16 × 2 5/8 in. (9.3 × 6.6 cm)
Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 11/16 in. (9.4 × 6.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.113
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper center: Rembrandt f 164 [last digit missing]; stamped, on verso: collection marks of the Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58), H.S. Olivier (Lugt 1373), A. Hirsch (Lugt 133), and J.H. Wrenn (Lugt 1475)
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 20, 1988, no. 18.
Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 77.
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.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.119, no. 255.
Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p. 51, no. 77.
Hilliard T. Goldfarb, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988, pp. 50-51, no. 18, ill.
Provenance
Heneage Finch, Fifth Earl of Aylesford, London, and Packington Hall, Warwickshire 1786-1859; sold to Samuel Woodburn 1846; H.S. Olivier, Potterne Manor, Wiltshire; Alphonse Hirsch, Paris 1843-1884; sold to Sotheby's, London, July 29-30, 1875; given to John H. Wrenn, Chicago 1841-1911; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York; lot 868; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on November 14, 1981; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 195 i/ii; Bartsch and Hollstein 310; Hind 188
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