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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,6.154
Title
Series:
Tronies
Description
An old man wearing a tall fur cap, bust-length figure in frontal view; after Rembrandt. 1633 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Jan van Vliet
After:
Rembrandt
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1633
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
212 millimetres
Width:
178 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of six, for comment see S.184. For another impression see S.190 and 1915,0106.18. After Rembrandt's painting of 1630 in the Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, inv.no.599 (Bredius 76). Lit.: C. Schuckman, M. Royalton-Kisch and E. Hinterding, 'Rembrandt and van Vliet. A collaboration on Copper', exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Rembrandthuis), Amsterdam 1996, cat.11.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(24.II)
Bartsch-Claussin 1797-1828 / Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes de Rembrandt (plus Supplement)
(II.93.24)
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2005 / A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings
(I.A.29)
(graphic reproduction 1)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Harmen Gerritsz. van Rijn
(formerly identified as)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(probably)
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition notes
with Philipe's oval stamp but no initials; the print belongs with a run of similar works by van Vliet that all come from Sloane
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,6.154
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
1982,U.3354