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The artist's mother: head only, full face

Print
1628 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (etcher)
Place of origin
Netherlands (made)

Etching depicting portrait of a woman, head only. She is wearing a white hood over her head. The image is positioned toward the bottom right of the plate, the rest white with rough shading to the left of the woman.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
print
TitleThe artist's mother: head only, full face (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Paper
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 'The artist's mother: head only, full face', second state. Netherlands, 1628.
Physical description
Etching depicting portrait of a woman, head only. She is wearing a white hood over her head. The image is positioned toward the bottom right of the plate, the rest white with rough shading to the left of the woman.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.3cm (trimmed to)
  • Width: 6.5cm (trimmed to)
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
RHL 1628 (The 2 reversed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides.
Object history
C.A. Ionides Bequest.
Subject depicted
Woman's Head
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • Bartsch, Adam von. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt (Vienna, 1797). B.352
  • White, Christopher and Boon, Karel G. Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue in Two Volumes, I. Text. (Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co; London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1969).
  • Blanc, Charles, L'oeuvre complet de Rembrandt, décrit et commenté, (Paris, 1859-61).
  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. (London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923).
  • Biörklund George. Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated, (Stockholm, London & Paris, 1955) (2nd ed. 1968).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CAI.717

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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