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Museum number: 1914,0214.43
Description: A Scholar in His Study ('Faust'); Man wearing robes and a cap standing behind his desk looking over his left shoulder towards the left at the apparition of an inscribed and radiant disk and a vague figure with a pointing hand in the window, a globe in the right foreground, papers, a skull and curtain in the left background; posthumous fifth state with additional parallel lines in pile of books, many shadows strengthened in etching, before beam of light shining at the sitter's face is divided in two beams, before complete reworking. c.1652 Etching, drypoint and burin
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Production date: 1652 (circa)
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Technique: etching; drypoint
Dimensions: Height: 210 millimetres; Width: 160 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment and an impression of first state see F,6.23.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (270.V) (Rembrandt); Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (260.III); White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (270.III); Hinterding et al. 2000 / Rembrandt the Printmaker (69)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1914
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1914,0214.43
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