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Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician

1647

Rembrandt van Rijn

(Dutch, 1606–1669)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching, drypoint and engraving

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 24.3 x 17.4 cm (9 9/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Platemark: 24.1 x 17.1 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)

The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.101

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 278 (XVIII.130)

State: ii/ii

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right, in plate (barely visable): Rembrandt f. 1647 ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: 280 ; lower left, in graphite: 6350 ; lower left, in graphite: a 17539 ; lower left, in graphite: 17060 ; lower left, in graphite: A.H.L.-- ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower right, in graphite: HPXV ; lower right, in pen and brown ink: 258 ; lower right, in graphite: L. ; lower right, in red chalk: 10

Provenance
(Keppel & Co., New York, NY)
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH
Estate of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, Cleveland, OH
March 17, 1944
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Published as: Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician. Mentioned: p. 89, 90; Reproduced: Plate XXXIX archive.org
Exhibition history

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Prints by Rembrandt and His Circle. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-May 25, 1984).

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