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Six's Bridge

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

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint
Dimensions Platemark: 13 x 22.7 cm (5 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.3 x 26 cm (6 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in honor of Clifford S. Ackley
Accession Number2003.116
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 208 iii; Hind 209 iii/iii
Marks Recto lower left, stamped in brown-black ink -- mark of Christian Josi, Lugt 573
Recto lower left in graphited pencil: B. 208
Verso left, stamped in black ink -- mark of John Webster, Lugt 1554
Verso left, stamped in black ink -- mark of Paul Davidsohn, Lugt 654
Verso left, stamped in black ink -- mark of Felix Somary, not in Lugt
Verso lower center in graphite pencil -- B. 208
Verso lower center in pen and brown ink -- mark of John Webster, Lugt 1555
Inscriptionssigned and dated in plate: Rembrandt f.1645
ProvenanceChristian Josi (b. before 1765 - d. 1828; Lugt 573), Amsterdam and London; March 18, 1829 and following days, posthumous Josi sale, Christie's, London, lot 79, sold for £10 to Chevalier Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (b. 1766 - d. 1844), Paris and London (cf. Lugt 485). John Webster (b. 1810 - d. 1891; Lugt 1554-5), Aberdeen; May 9, 1889, Webster sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 94, sold for £23 to Danlos. Paul Davidsohn (b. 1839 – d. about 1924; Lugt 654), London and Berlin; April 26 - 29, 1921, Davidsohn sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 174, sold for M 62,000. May 25 - 27, 1925, anonymous sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 1143, sold for M 7,600 to Gilhofer and Ranschburg for Felix Somary (b. 1881 - d. 1956), Vienna, Zurich, and Washington, DC. 1985, Artemis and N. G. Stogdon (dealers) [see note]. 1999, 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)

NOTE: Included in Nicholas Stogdon’s catalogue number 32.