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Portrait d’une Vieille Femme

Félix Bracquemond, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob Adrianensz Backer, Alfred Salmon

Portrait d’une Vieille Femme

1867

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Félix Bracquemond, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob Adrianensz Backer, Alfred Salmon

Portrait d’une Vieille Femme

1867

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 149 x 129 mm. (5 7/8 x 5 1/16 in.) Image: 110 x 100 mm. (4 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.4713
Plate 11 from the book "Catalogue de vingt-trois tableau des écoles flamande et hollandaise provenant de la galerie San Donato...dont la vent aura lieu Hôtel Drouot...le 17 avril 1868." Print after painting originally believed to be by Rembrandt, now attributed to the style of Jacob Backer, Portrait of an Old Woman, second quarter of 17th century (Metropolitan Museum of Art). For a discussion of the attribution of the painting, see Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 93-94, #23.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du xix siècle (Paris: L. Conquet, 1885) vol. 3, p. 104, #304.

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: M. Le Garrec, 1930-ongoing) vol. 3, p. 373, #256.

Inscribed: Inscribed in plate: upper center "Rembrandt (Van Ryn)"; upper right "No. 11"; lower center "Portrait d'une Vieille Femme"; lower right "Imp. A. Salmon, Paris"

Markings: None

Artist

Félix Bracquemond

French, 1833-1914
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Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1606-1669
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Artist

Jacob Adrianensz Backer

Dutch, 1608-1651
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Printer

Alfred Salmon

French, active 1863 - 1894
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