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Rembrandt van Rijn and Claude Henri Watelet

The Star of Kings: A Night Piece

1645-1655

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The Star of Kings: A Night Piece

1645-1655

Physical Qualities Etching, with touches of drypoint, Sheet: 96 × 146 mm. (3 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.) Plate: 94 × 144 mm. (3 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The Miles White, Jr. Collection
Object Number 1976.15.30
As described in New Hollstein, this state shows reworked (not by Rembrandt) areas, particularly in the background.
Ex. Coll: Mrs. M.J. Morgan

Inscribed: Verso: center in graphite "12 1/2 16 [indecipherable]"; lower left in graphite "[indecipherable] 20 / 5563 / [indecipherable]"; lower right in graphite "wx"; lower right in graphite "115."

Markings: CM: Mary Jane Morgan (Lugt 1879); Miles White Jr. (Lugt 1926a); possibly an illegible stamp on verso at lower left in blue ink

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

1605–1668

Dutch, 1606-1669
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Artist

Claude Henri Watelet

1717–1785

French, 1718 - 1786
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