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The etchings of Rembrandt (1896)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century · London, Seeley and Co. · leaf 147

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Durcil ErCHERS OE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURT 25 But the question arises ; Which is the last state touched by the artist ? The work of later hands, added to a plate after the artist’s death, does not concern us *, but the development of the etching up to that state when the artist leaves it as a… … Fig. 8. — Peasant paying his Reckoning. By Ostade. B. 42. have seen, the plates were sold at his death in 1685. We know also that they were sold again by their new possessor, Dirk van der Stoel, Ostade’s son-in-law, in 1686 ; and eight years later again, in 1694. What state they were in then we can…

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 · Etching, Dutch

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