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Jacob Caressing Benjamin

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
about 1645

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 11.8 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 12.2 x 9.5 cm (4 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in honor of Clifford S. Ackley
Accession Number2003.113
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 033 i; Hind 148 i/ii
Marks Verso lower left, stamped in black ink -- mark of Walter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch, Lugt 402
Verso lower center in graphite pencil: No 132
Verso lower center in graphite pencil: 23 [encircled]
Verso lower center in graphite pencil: 6224 [? somewhat illegible]
InscriptionsSigned in plate Rembrandt. f
ProvenanceWalter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch (b. 1806 – d. 1884; Lugt 402), London and Dalkeith, Scotland; April 9 – 22, 1887, posthumous Francis sale, Christie's, London, lot 1885. Joseph R. Ritman, The Netherlands; 1999, sold from the Ritman collection through Sotheby's and Artemis, New York and London to Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2003, gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 2003)