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Rembrandt’s Mother Reading

Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt’s Mother Reading

1773

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Rembrandt’s Mother Reading

1773

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and drypoint, Sheet: 234 x 200 mm. (9 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.) Plate: 220 x 184 mm. (8 11/16 x 7 1/4 in.) Image: 202 x 177 mm. (7 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7679
After a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn.

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "RembrandtPinx."; below image, lower center, in plate "du Cabinet de Monsieur Glume."; below image, lower right, in plate "G. F. Schmidt, fec aqua forti 1774."; below image, lower left, in graphite "J 153" Verso: lower left in graphite "53"; lower left in graphite diamond with "12433"; lower center in graphite "8"; lower right in graphite "15"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

1711–1774

German, 1712-1775
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Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

1605–1668

Dutch, 1606-1669
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