Rembrandt van Rijn and Claude Henri Watelet
The Star of Kings: A Night Piece
1645
Scroll
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
BMA, "The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Collection," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
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
