Landscape with a Milkman (Het Melkboertje)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
about 1650
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Overall: 2 5/8 × 7 in. (6.7 × 17.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.99
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on verso, in brown ink: P. mariette 1672 (Lugt 1790)
Course History
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
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, 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. 74.
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. 100.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling an European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, January 29, 2020.
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.
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2018, Symbolic Landscape: Exloring the Semiotics of Landscape in Rembrandt's "Three Trees", Tess McGuinness, Class of 2018, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, https://www.tmcguinness.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
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.115, no. 241.
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. 100.
Hilliard Goldfarb, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection of Rembrandt Prints, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988, pp. 174-175, no. 74, ill.
Provenance
Perhaps Richard Udny, London and Teddington 1722-1802; William H. Schab Gallery, New York; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on August 23, 1982; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 255; Bartsch and Hollstein 213; Hind 242
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