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Rembrandt van Rijn

Faust, c. 1652

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and engraving on rough beige paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.2 x 16.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 270, State i/iii

Accession Number

1949.1.40

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1930 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

1969: Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 46, 49, repro.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 51.

1984: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 270, state i/vii.

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