Etching. Ca. 1630. Size: 64 x 56 mm. Surface: 36 cm2.
Not signed, not dated.
Copper Plate
The plate was not part of any of the major, early collections and is probably not in existence.
Rarity of impressions
In auctions (2000-2025): not seen in auctions
In collections (New Hollstein – 2013): extremely rare Early: 9 ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿
Catalogue Nowell-Usticke (1967): RRRR+, almost unobtainable, an interesting study ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿
Related
A now lost drawing by Rembrandt, only known through an etching by J.D.Laurentz (Benesch 316a, dated 1636), shows similarities in the head.
Copies
There is an anonymous copy in the same direction in the catalogue of Blanc 1859-61, II p. 218, attributed by some authors to Flameng. (56 x 56 mm)
Attributions and reviews
White-Boon and the New Hollstein do not doubt the attribution to Rembrandt.
The plate was made by Samuel Hoogstraten according to Hind, de Vries, Röver, White-Boon.
The plate was made by Ferdinand Bol according to Münz.
The plate is not by Rembrandt according to Seidlitz, Coppier, Rovinsky, Michel, Campbell Dodgson and Singer.
States
All authors list one state only.
Literature
H 368, BB 30-18, Y 141, M 3, Mz 336, RA 983-984, Cl 365, W 369, Bl 252, Du 363, CD 370
