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Object Type
Museum number: 1941,0327.11.84
Title: Series: Recueil Basan
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 seventh state, completely reworked, sitter looks like younger man, after beam of light shining at the sitter's face has been divided in two beams; from an edition of the Recueil published by Henri Louis Basan around 1810. c.1652 Etching, drypoint and burin
Producer name: Print made by: Rembrandt; Print made by: Henri Louis Basan (workshop re-work?); Published by: Henri Louis Basan
School/style: Dutch; French
Production date: 1652 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; drypoint
Dimensions: Height: 208 millimetres; Width: 162 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For the Rembrandt etching see F,6.23 For comment on the volume, which was published by Henri Louis Basan around 1810, see 1941,0327.11.1
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (270.VII) (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)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: alchemist/alchemy (?); scholar
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1941
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1941,0327.11.84

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