Bald Headed Man in Profile Right (The Artist's Father?)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1630
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 2 11/16 × 2 5/16 in. (6.9 × 5.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.112
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: RHL [monogram] / 1630; inscribed, on verso, in graphite: F.F. Hansen and stamped with his collector's mark (L. 2813); inscribed, on verso, in graphite: V.S. 14757
Course History
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 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. 3.
Drawing from the Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt15, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 9-October 22, 2000.
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. 75.
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.117 and 119, no. 254.
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. 75.
Hilliard T. Goldfarb, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988, pp. 20-21, no. 3, ill.
Provenance
Frederik Ferdinand Hansen, Copenhagen 1823-1916; sold to C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 2-4, 1911, lot 533; Anderson Galleries, New York; Gordon W. Nowell-Usticke; sold to Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 31, 1967, lot 41; William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on December 6, 1984; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 62 v/v; Bartsch and Hollstein 292; Hind 23
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