Object details
Object number
P21n9
Creator(s)
Rembrandt van Rijn
(Leyden, 1606 - 1669, Amsterdam)
Title
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Date
about 1633
Medium
Etching
Description
Stolen in 1990.
Provenance
Acquired by Mary Jane Morgan (d. 1885), American fine and decorative arts collector and second wife of the shipping, railroad, and iron magnate Charles Morgan (1795-1878), at an unknown date.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the sale of the collection of Mary Jane Morgan, lot 2020, for $120 on 18 March 1886, through the art dealer Frederick Keppel and Co., New York.
Stolen in 1990.
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
In pencil (on mount): Blanc 206 [?]. Bartsch 2. Claussen [?] 2. Wilson [?] 2. Rembrandt. Rembrandt aux trois moustaches. This beautiful little portrait is extremely rare.
Dimensions
4.5 x 5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Gallery
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Adam Bartsch. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs, vol. 1 (Vienna, 1797), no. 2.
American Art Association. Catalogue of the art collection...Mary J. Morgan... (New York, 8-15 March 1886), p. 275, lot 2020.
Arthur M. Hind. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings, vol. 1, 2nd edition (London ,1923; 1st edition :Rembrandt' Etchings (London, 1912)), p. 94, no. 57.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 178.
Kristin A. Mortimer. "Report of the Curator." Fenway Court (1985), p. 70.
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