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Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
1656

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint
Dimensions Platemark: 19.9 x 15 cm (7 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.8 x 15.5 cm (8 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number97.1248
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 276, i; Hind 290, i
Marks William Esdaile's initials in brown pen in bottom margin at far right and in very light brown pen in top right corner within plate mark both recto; William Esdaile's initials with date (1809), verso, in brown pen ink at the bottom left (see treatment photograph); M.F.A./H.D.P. Coll. stamp, verso, bottom left; black ink stamp, enciricled initials (JHB?) with animal above, located verso at bottom left (see treatment photograph)
Inscriptionsvarious graphite and pen inscriptions on recto and verso - see treatment photograph
ProvenanceBy 1809, William Esdaile (b. 1758 - d. 1837; Lugt 2617), London; June 11-16, 1840, posthumous Esdaile sale, Christie and Manson, lot 836. Henry Brodhurst (active mid-19th century; Lugt 1296), Mansfield, England. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: April 11, 2022)

NOTE: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.