Carl Ernst Hess, Rembrandt van Rijn, and others
Portrait of the Wife of the Painter Govert Flinck
1774
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- Artist: Carl Ernst Hess
- Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
- Artist: Ferdinand Bol
Portrait of the Wife of the Painter Govert Flinck
1774
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 208 x 171 mm. (8 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Image: 170 x 150 mm. (6 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "La Galerie Electorale de Düsseldorf"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.2192
After the painting by Ferdinand Bol in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv.no.610 (with slight variations such as omitting the feathers in the woman's hair); the painting was previously attributed to Rembrandt. The sitter has been identified as the wife of the painter Govert Flinck. This print is from a series of nine plates after Rembrandt paintings, "La Galerie Electorale de Düsseldorf" (Basel: 1778), all etched by Hess after paintings then in the collection of the Elector Palatine Karl Theodor in Düsseldorf. Most of these paintings are now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
There are four prints in the Garrett Collection from the series: 1946.112.2190, 1946.112.2191, 1946.112.2192, 1946.112.2193.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "Rembrandt f. / 1642"; below image, lower right, in plate "Hess fecit aqua forti"; below image, across lower margin, in plate "DAS MALER FLINKS EHGATTIN / Nach einem original Gemälde von Rembrandt / aus der Kurfürtlichen Galerie zu Düsseldorf." Verso: lower left in graphite "4"; lower right in graphite "346 [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
