Harvard Art Museums > M23935: The Hog Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Hog (Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn) , M23935,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/198162. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M23935 People Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam) Title The Hog Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1643 Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/198162 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching and drypoint with plate tone on white antiique laid paper Technique Etching and drypoint Dimensions plate: 14.5 × 18.8 cm (5 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 14.8 × 19.2 cm (5 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks collector's mark: vero, blue stamp with added graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M23935 inscription: verso, brown ink: r. r / 1 [illeg] inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 392 / prsfmx inscription: in plate, lower right corner: Rembrandt f 1643. inscription: in lower margin, at left, in brown ink: 152 watermark: [a large and complete watermark; illegible but probably a basilisk, a mark that Hinterding dates, v, 2, p. 415, to 1641.] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Henri Vever, auction sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1998., 1998. The print was retained in the family until its sale, together with other old-master prints from the Vever collection, on 30 June 1998, Sotheby's, London. It was purchased jointly at this sale by R. M. Light, Artemis, and Nicholas Stogdon. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State i/ii Standard Reference Number New Hollstein 215, Bartsch 157, Hind 204 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints Accession Year 1998 Object Number M23935 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The print shows the inky plate edges at left and bottom characteristic of the earliest first-state impressions. Publication History James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 48, repr. Clifford S. Ackley and Ronni Baer, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 2003), cat.no.76; pp.48, 123, 145-46, 318 Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 98, repr. Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2009), p. 126, fig. 10.9 Exhibition History Rembrandt's Journey: Painting, Draftsman, Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/26/2003 - 01/18/2004; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/14/2004 - 05/09/2004 Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
