Reproduction
Object number
294
Record type
single object
Catalog (number)
Bartsch: B179
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD49
Object name
Title
Etching plate: Beggar with a Wooden Leg
Creator
Production date
ca 1630
Technique
Material
support:
copper (inked and lacquered)
Dimensions
plate height: 115 mm
plate width: 67 mm
Accompanying text
The plate has been worked up a little by later publishers, so that the lines of shadow over the face have become somewhat coarser and the originally delicate outline of the coat has been transformed into a harder line.
Acquisition
Group of 74 plates directly purchased from Rembrandt by Clement de Jonghe in the 1650´s; Pieter de Haan d. 1766; Claude-Henri Watelet d. 1786; Pierre-Francois Basan d. 1797; Auguste Jean; Auguste Bernard; Alvin Beaumont purchased the plates from Bernard’s son, 1906; Beaumont sold them to Dr. Robert Lee Humber, 1938; sold by the descendants of Robert Lee Humber, 1993. Four plates of this group (of which this is one) came to The Rembrandt House Museum through Arcold Inc. (this purchase was made possible by the support of the Rembrandt Association [Vereniging Rembrandt], the Friends of The Rembrandt House Museum, VSB Foundation and the Ministry of Culture), and six plates are on loan from private collections.
