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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Leyden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669

A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Family Receiving Alms

Date 1648
Materials and Techniques Etching and drypoint on cartridge paper
Size(cm) 16.4 x 12.8
Credit Line Donated by the heirs of Mr. Kojiro Matsukata (Ex-Matsukata Collection)
Standard ref. B. 176; H. 233; NH. 243 i/v; W-B. 176
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2020-0097

Provenance

Jonathan Blackburne (1721-1786) [sighed lower left on the back and collector’s mark upper middle on the back (Lugt 2650b)]; William Esdaile (1758-1837), London [collector’s mark lower right on the face and lower left on the back (Lugt 2617)]; [?] John Heywood Hawkins (ca. 1800-1870/80) [collector’s mark lower left on the back (Lugt 3022)?] or Walter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884) [collector’s mark lower left on the back (Lugt 402)]; Walter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884) [collector’s mark lower left on the back (Lugt 402)] or [?] John Heywood Hawkins (c. 1800-1870/80) [collector’s mark lower left on the back (Lugt 3022)?]; Richard Gutekunst (born in 1870) [collector’s mark lower right on the back (Lugt 2213a)]; acquired by MATSUKATA Kojiro; inherited within the Matsukata family; Mr. MATSUKATA Kiyohiko; donated by Matsukata to NMWA, 2020.

Bibliography

1969
White, Christopher. Rembrandt as an Etcher. A Study of the Artist at Work. London, 1969, pp. 167-169.
1973
Slatkes, Leonard Joseph. Book Review ‘C. White and Boon, Rembrandt Etching and C. White, Rembrandt as Etcher’. Art Quarterly. vol. 36, 1973, p. 257.
1981
Hellerstedt, Kahren Jones. A Traditional Motif in Rembrandt’s Etchings. The Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Oud Holland. vol. 95, 1981, pp. 16-30.
1986
Rembrandt. Eaux-fortes (exh. cat.). Bussierre, Sophie de, ed. Musée du petit palais. Paris, 1986, no. 87.
1986
Stratton, Suzanne. Rembrandt’s Beggars: Satire & Sympathy. The Print Collector’s Newsletter. vol. 17, no. 3, 1986, pp. 77-82.
1991
Bevers, Holm; Schatborn, Peter; Welzel, Barbara. Rembrandt, The Master & His Workshop: Drawings & Etchings (exh. cat.). Kupferstichkabinett SMPK, Altes Museum, Berlin, 12 September - 27 October 1991; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 4 December 1991 - 19 January 1992; National Gallery, London 26 March - 24 May 1992. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press; London, National Gallery, c. 1991, pp. 239-241, 26 (II).
1991
Held, Julius. “Rembrandt’s Interest in Beggars (1648)”. Rembrandt Studies. Held, Julius. Princeton, 1991, pp. 153-163.
1997
Spiegel van alledag. Nederlandse genreprenten 1550–1700 (exh. cat.). Jongh, Eddy de; Luijten, Ger, eds. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no. 56.
1999
White. Christopher. Rembrandt as an Etcher. A Study of the Artist at Work. New Heaven; London, 1999 (2nd revised edition), pp. 188-189.
2000
Rembrandt the Printmaker (exh. cat.). Hinterding, Erik. et al., eds. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 22 July 2000-8 October; British Museum, London, 26 January 2001-8 April 2001. Chicago, 2000, no. 60.
2001
Rembrandt's Women (exh. cat.). Williams, Julia Lloyd, ed. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 8 June-2 September 2001; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 September-16 December 2001. New York, Prestel, 2001, cat. no. 111.
2003
Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher (exh. cat.). Ackley, Clifford S, ed. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Boston, 2003, cat. no. 140.
2006
Rembrandt as Printmaker (exh. cat.). Royalton-Kisch, Martin, ed. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 8 April-18 June 2006; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 24 June-3 September 2006; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 14 October-31 December 2006; The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 28 April- 24 June 2007; Grundy Art Gallery, Blockpool, 30 June-8 September 2007. London, Hayward Gallery, 2006, cat. no. 35, col. repr.
2008
Hinterding, Erik. Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection. Bussum, 2008, no. 142.
2019
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2:Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019,, cat. no. 2656, col. repr.
2022
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 55 (Apr. 2020-Mar. 2021), 2022, List of New Acquisitions. p. 19.

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