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Jan Asselyn
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
about 1647
Medium/Technique
Etching, drypoint, and burnishing on Japanese paper
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.9 x 16.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.9 x 16.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.9 x 16.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession Number54.133
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 277 ii/iii; Hind 227 ii/iii
DescriptionThe inscription "krabbetje" refers to the sitter's nickname, itself deriving from his mishapen hand. This is a sumptuous impression with considerable plate tone.
InscriptionsIn plate LR: Rembr / f 16 [date not clearly legible]
Later inscriptions or marks: Recto LC in pen & brown ink: krabbetje
Verso LR stamped in black ink-- mark of the Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58)
Verso LR stamped in blue ink-- mark of the Duke D’Arenberg (Lugt 567)
Verso LC in graphite pencil: fL [?] 219 / 277
Verso LC in partly erased graphite pencil: IIe etat de la / [col. chalon or crabje FG?] / GB e [this part underlined] / No. 77 CB 74 [?]
Verso CL in graphite pencil: [a small cypher resembling a notation of the sqaure root of 2 followed by a dot
Later inscriptions or marks: Recto LC in pen & brown ink: krabbetje
Verso LR stamped in black ink-- mark of the Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58)
Verso LR stamped in blue ink-- mark of the Duke D’Arenberg (Lugt 567)
Verso LC in graphite pencil: fL [?] 219 / 277
Verso LC in partly erased graphite pencil: IIe etat de la / [col. chalon or crabje FG?] / GB e [this part underlined] / No. 77 CB 74 [?]
Verso CL in graphite pencil: [a small cypher resembling a notation of the sqaure root of 2 followed by a dot
ProvenanceHeneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (b. 1786 - d. 1859; Lugt 58), London and Warwickshire, England; 1846, probably sold with the Aylesford collection to Samuel Woodburn (dealer; b. 1786 - d. 1853), London. Dukes D'Arenberg, Brussels and Nordkirchen, Westphalia (Lugt 567); after about 1918, sold from the Arenberg collection to a London dealer and, in 1952, sold to William Schab (dealer), New York [see note]; 1954, exchanged by Schab with the MFA. (Accession Date: March 11, 1954)
[1] According to Lugt (1956 edition), online at marquesdecollections.fr, a group of prints from the Arenberg collection was sold after World War I to a London dealer and in 1952 to Schab.
[1] According to Lugt (1956 edition), online at marquesdecollections.fr, a group of prints from the Arenberg collection was sold after World War I to a London dealer and in 1952 to Schab.