Rembrandt etching a plate

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Object Details

original artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

publisher

Basan

Description

Trimmed inside plate mark. Print attributed to Pierre Francois Basan after a plate once attributed to Rembrandt. Text lightly etched in lower margin: "Rembrandt gravant une planche/oeuvre de Mr Marriette." [Parisian collector/dealer P. J. Mariette] Pencil note "a portrait of himself" inside image above margin may be in Geo. P. Marsh's hand.See NHD 304, copy a; Hind 300 A; Biorklund-Barnard reject 81.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Marsh Collection

date made

1645

ID Number

1978.0534.42

accession number

1978.0534

catalog number

1978.0534.42

Object Name

etching

Object Type

Etching

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

ink (overall material)

Measurements

sheet: 13 cm x 6.4 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 17/32 in

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Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b4fe-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1343444