M13643: Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M13643
- People
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
- Title
- Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1636
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/261772
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 15 × 12.7 cm (5 7/8 × 5 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lover edge toward left: Rembrandt. f. / 1636
- watermark: recto, center left, cut off: Arms of Amsterdam [identified by Hinterding, p. 37, as ZZ.zz, that is, not photographed; too partial to make a more precise identification from his plates. Generally speaking, Arms of Amsterdam watermarks appear on Rembrandt impressions only in the mid 1650s and later.]
- collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 13,643
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 306/2[?]72 / [illeg.]5[?]30 / [illeg.] B. 365.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 157, Bartsch 365, Hind 145, Rovinsky 365
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt, by exchange
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- M13643
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
- Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 57 on p. 163 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Exhibition History
- Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006
- 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/17/2019 - 11/21/2019
Verification Level
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