Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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