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Two studies of beggars

  • French title:
    Gueux griffonné
  • German title:
    Zwei Bettlerstudien
  • Dutch title:
    Een studie met twee bedelaars
  • New Hollstein:
    42

Etching. Ca. 1629.
Size: 91 x 74 mm. Surface: 67 cm2.
Not signed, not dated.

Copper Plate

The copperplate was not part of any of the early sales or collections and is almost certainly not in existence.


Rarity of impressions

  • In auctions (2000-2025): not seen in auctions

  • In collections (New Hollstein – 2013): extremely rare          Early: 1                                         ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿

  • Catalogue Nowell-Usticke (1967): O-, unobtainable


Attributions and reviews

The plate is not by Rembrandt according to Coppier and Singer.


States

One state only.


Prints and collections

NH found only one impression, in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Another impressions was supposedly in the Collection I. De Bruijn.


Literature

H 78a, BB 31-18, G174 , M 11, Mz 105, RA 516, Cl 179, W 179, Bl 147, Du 178, CD 21