Old Man with a Beard, Fur Cap, and Velvet Cloak

Rembrandt Van Rijn
Old Man with a Beard, Fur Cap, and Velvet Cloak
etching
1632

An original Rembrandt Van Rijn etching.

1632

Original etching printed in black ink on thin laid paper.

Signed in the plate with the artist’s monogram left center RHL.fe.

A 19th century impression of Bartsch’s second state of three, Usticke and New Hollstein’s third and final state, printed after the addition of the five short diagonals to the shading at the left edge 3 cm from the bottom and the addition of irregular rough shading to the hand.

Catalog: Bartsch 262 ii/iii; Hind 92; Biorklund-Barnard 32-2; Usticke 262 iii/iii; New Hollstein 92 iii/iii