Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap

Rembrandt1640

Details

Title: Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date Created: 1640
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, upper left: “Rembrandt f 1640”
Print State: First of two states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1941
Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint on laid paper. Watermark: Bottom wire and “WR” of Strasbourg Lily
Keywords: genre, portraits
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 150 mm x 137 mm (5.91 in. x 5.39 in.). Sheet dimensions: 155 mm x 142 mm (6.1 in. x 5.59 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 265; H. 170; White and Boon first of two states. For student research on the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings’ watermarks vis-à-vis Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file “Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.”
Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Accession Number: 1941.D1.31

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