Rembrandt and His Wife Saskia

Rembrandt1636

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Title: Rembrandt and His Wife Saskia
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date Created: 1636
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate: “Rembrandt 1636”
Print State: First state
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), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Etching on cream laid paper
Keywords: artist portraits, husbands, male portraits, portraits, printmaker portraits, self-portraits, wives
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 101 mm x 91 mm (3.98 in. x 3.58 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 19; White and Boon, first state with “curved slipped stroke above Saskia’s right eyebrow”; Hind 144; Münz 21; BB. 36-A
Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.214

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