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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13104
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Death of the Virgin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1639
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262238

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint with added mezzotint on white 18th-c. antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 39 × 31 cm (15 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
sheet: 41.2 × 32.5 cm (16 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: Rembrandt f. 1639
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: [illegible, perhaps a monogram in an arch-topped rectangle]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 13,104
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: c15799 / From the Firman-Didot collection / Sold at his Sale for 1520 francs in 1877 / 7NO. / H [illeg. and struck through]

    [There is also a cryptic set of what seem to be three initials arranged in a triangle, with I or 1 at the apex and a backward C and a script L at the two lower corners]
  • watermark: Strasbourg lily [Hinterding v. 2, p. 227 ZZ.zz. unidentified references.]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/v (posthumous)
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 99, New Hollstein 173, Hind 161

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Arnold Knapp
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
M13104
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), repr. as fig. 19 on p.23 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 54 on p. 154 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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