Rembrandt van Rijn
(Dutch, 1606–1669)
Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, Three-Quarters Right: The Artist’s Father (?)
Object Details
Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Date
1630
Medium
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 4 x 3 1/4 inches (10.2 x 8.3 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Paul Ehrenfest, Class of 1932
Object
Number
85.026.005
Whistler’s brother-in-law, Seymour Haden, with whom he stayed while in London, had a large collect(…)
Whistler’s brother-in-law, Seymour Haden, with whom he stayed while in London, had a large collection of etchings, many by the master of the medium, Rembrandt. His early drawings and etchings reflect how closely he poured over the originals. In the early 1860s, reviewing a show of Whistler’s paintings and etchings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti noted that in the latter, Whistler had no “superior since the days of Rembrandt.” Rossetti was not the only one to make this comparison, and a reviewer in Punch magazine echoed those words almost verbatim. (“The Touch of the Butterfly: Whistler and His Influence,” curated by Nancy E. Green and presented at the Johnson Museum August 4-December 16, 2018)
