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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3282
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Jan Uytenbogaert, "The Goldweigher"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Gold-weigher
Alternate Title: Jan Uytenbogaert, Receiver-General
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1639
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299957

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint on heavy white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 25 × 20.2 cm (9 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.7 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, very top edge, very bottom edge, brown ink: [An extensive inscription, apparently in a late 17th-c.hand, running across both the bottom and top of the verso, and partially cut off by the trimming of the sheet, has been deliberately abraded to the point of illegibility.]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 3282
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Ev. Aug. 28t. 1856 / I etat. [pound sign]. 31. 10, [Gray collection accession information: the print purchased from Evans on August 28, 1856, for 31 pounds, 10 shillings]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptons: 262 [the 2 struck through so that the number reads 251] / very scarce / 30 x 40 / v [or r] mfa

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 172, Bartsch 281, Hind 167, Rovinski 281

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3282
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

  • Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000

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