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Old Man with a Flowing Beard: Bust

1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

(Dutch, 1606–1669)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 6.7 x 6.6 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1973.38

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 315 (XVIII.145)

State: i/ii

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper left, in plate: RHL 1631 [in monogram] ; upper right, in pen and brown ink: [60?]8 [upsidedown] ; VERSO, center, in graphite: B. 315 I / H 48 I ; lower left, in pen and brown ink: 3 ; lower center, in graphite: Gers. No. 292

Provenance
Richard Dawnay, Viscount Downe (born 1903), Wykeham Abbey, Scarborough [according to departmental card]. purchased from (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 159 archive.org
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973.38