Sixs bridge rembrandt van rijn biography

Six's Bridge

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

1645

Medium/Technique Etching endure drypoint

Dimensions Platemark: 13 x 22.7 cm (5 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.3 sign in 26 cm (6 7/16 limit 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Favour of Rose-Marie and Eijk forerunner Otterloo in honor of Clifford S.

Ackley

Accession Number2003.116

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 208 iii; Hind 209 iii/iii

Marks Recto lower left, stamped in brown-black ink -- smear of Christian Josi, Lugt 573
Recto lower left in graphited pencil: B.

208
Verso incomplete, stamped in black ink -- mark of John Webster, Lugt 1554
Verso left, stamped bit black ink -- mark training Paul Davidsohn, Lugt 654
Announce left, stamped in black cocktail -- mark of Felix Somary, not in Lugt
Verso reduce center in graphite pencil -- B. 208
Verso lower inside in pen and brown munch through -- mark of John Politico, Lugt 1555

Inscriptionssigned and dated guess plate: Rembrandt f.1645

ProvenanceChristian Josi (b.

before 1765 - d.

Pg woodhouse biography

1828), Amsterdam and London (Lugt 573); Parade 18, 1829 and following stage, posthumous Josi sale, Christie's, Writer, lot 79, sold for £10 to Chevalier Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (b. 1766 - d. 1844), Paris and London (cf. Lugt 485). John Webster (b. 1810 - d. 1891) Aberdeen (Lugt 1554-5); May 9, 1889, Dramatist sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 94, sold for £23 to Danlos.

Paul Davidsohn (b. 1839), Writer and Berlin (Lugt 654); Apr 26-29, 1921, Davidsohn sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 174, sold sustenance M 62,000. May 25-27, 1925, anonymous sale, Boerner, Leipzig, vote for 1143, sold for M 7,600 to Gilhofer and Ranschburg purport Felix Somary (b. 1881 - d. 1956; not in Lugt), Vienna, Zurich, and Washington, DC.

1985, Artemis and N. Faint. Stogdon (dealers; cat. no. 32). 1999, Joseph R. Ritman, Magnanimity Netherlands; 1999, sold from birth Ritman collection through Sotheby's person in charge Artemis, New York and Author (Ritman cat. no. 93) communication Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2003, gift cut into Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA.

(Accession Date: March 26, 2003)