Fk-.oVO, UU«xH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Brigham Young University http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofrembrOOhind a' catalogue of rembrandt's etchings CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED AND COMPLETELY ILLUSTRATED B y ARTHUR M. HIND OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I INTRODUCTION AND CATALOGUE WITH FRONTISPIECE IN PHOTOGRAVURE, AND TEN PLATES ILLUSTRATING STUDIES FOR THE ETCHINGS METHUEN AND CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published February igis Second Edition, revised and in part rewritten . '9^3 THE LIBRARY BRIGHAM YOUWG UIN/IVERSIT^ PROVO, UTAH PREFACE THE present catalogue is a revised edition of the one which appeared in 1912 in my Rembrandt's Etchings, an Essay and a Catalogue, with some Notes on the Drawings. The Introduction is also composed to a large extent of material from the same volume, but revised and re-arranged with the definite object of providing such notes as would be of most use to the student and collector of Rembrandt's etchings (e.g. in the addition of a list of values). The volume of plates, to which a few subjects have been added since 1912, will no doubt be of service for purposes of identifica- tion, and will, I hope, appeal equally to the amateur or artist who merely wishes to be reminded of this incomparable series of subjects. For drawing my attention to new states or other details of description in the Catalogue, I would express acknowledgment to Jhr. Mr. J. F. Backer (No. Ill), Mr. John Charrington (No. 148), Messrs. Craddock and Barnard (Nos. 92, 126, 144, 146, 186, 192, 202, 218, 259, 290, 294, 298), M. Frits Lugt (No. 195), Baron Edmond de Rothschild (No. 97), Mr. Harold J. L. Wright and Mr. E. G. Kennedy (No. 203). Many new notes on landscape are due to Mr. Lugt's most interesting work, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam (1920). A. M. H. CONTENTS FAGB BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY, ....... 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY, ....... S INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON REMBRANDT'S ETCHED WORK, , 11 CATALOGUE— Authentic : Nos. 1-303, ....... 43 Rejected : Nos. 1304-389, ....... 121 FINDING LIST to locate any Etching in the Present Catalogue from its Number in any other Catalogue, . , , . ,133 SUBJECT INDEX TO THE CATALOGUE, 145 LIST OF PLATES 11^ VOLUME L Frontispiece. Rembrandt Drawing at a Window. From an impression of the First State of the Etching, No. 229, in the British Museum. PLATE I. Study of an Old Man. Black chalk. H. de G., 233. Dresden. Used in the etching of Peter and John at the Gate of the Temple (5). II. The Entombment (on the same sheet as a Raising of Lazarus). Red chalk, H. de G., 891. British Museum, 2. III. Portrait Sketch of Jan Cornelis Sylvius. Study for the etching (225). Pen and bistre, and bistre wash heightened with white. H. de G., 898. British Museum, 65. IV. Portrait Study of Jan Six. First idea for the etching (228). Pen and bistre, and bistre wash. H. de G., 1235. Six Collection, Amsterdam. V. Portrait Study of Jan Six. Final transfer drawing used for the same etching. Black and white chalk, indented with a stylus. Six Collection, Amsterdam. VI. Study for a Group in the Hundred G^iilder Print (236). Pen and bistre, and bistre wash. H. de G., 56. Berlin. VII. The Agony in the Garden. Pen and bistre. H. de G., 344. Hamburg. vni. The Agony in the Garden. Pen and bistre, and bistre wash. H. de G., 991. Collection of Mr. D. Y. Cameron, London. IX. Rembrandt Drawing from a Model. Study used in the etching (231). Pen and bistre, and bistre wash. H. de G., 939. British Museum, 69. X. The Woman with the Arrow. Study for the etching (303). Pen and bistre, with washes of sepia, bistre, and indian ink. H. de G., 937. British Museum, 96. THE ETCHINGS REPRODUCED IN VOLUME 11. ARE NUMBERED ACCORDING TO THE CATALOGUE, AND PLACED AS NEARLY AS POSSIBLE IN THE SAME ORDER IX 1 BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY ^ REMBRANDT HARMENSZ VAN RYN, son of Harmen Gerritsz van Ryn, miller (born 1568 or 1569), and Neeltge .- Willemsdochter, daughter of a baker of Zuytbroeck ; born July 15, 1606^ in a house in the Weddesteeg at Leyden ; entered Leyden University as student of letters May 20, 1620, but left before the end of the year ; studied painting for about three years under Jacob Isaaksz van Swanenburgh in his native town, and at the age of seventeen for about six months in Amsterdam under Pieter Lastman ; returned in 1624 to Leyden, probably to the home of his parents, where he was settled from 1624 until after June 1631 ; is said ^ to have studied a few months under Jan Pynas ; first dated work 1627 ; received Gerard Dou as a pupil in February 1628 ; lost his father April 27, 1630 ; removed to Amsterdam, probably in the latter half of 1631, taking his unmarried sister Lysbeth with him ; is known to have been living in July 1632 in the house of the art dealer and publisher Hendrik van Ulenburch near the S. Anthonis-sluis in the Breestraat, and appears to have remained in the same lodging till after February 1635; married Hendrik's kinswoman, Saskia van Ulenburch June 1634 ; had a son christened Rombertus December 1635; in February 1636 was living in the Nieuwe Doelenstraat ; a daughter Cornelia christened July 22, 1638 ; one of his children (probably Cornelia) buried in the Zuiderkerk August 13, 1638 ; in January and February 1639 he dates letters from a house on the Binnen-Amstel ; made agreement to pur- chase a house in the Breestraat (south-side, beyond the S. Anthonis- sluis)^ January 5, 1639, but was not to enter into possession until May of the same year; a second daughter christened Cornelia July 29, 1640 ; lost his mother, who was buried in S. Pieterskerk, Leyden, September 14, 1640; a second son Titus christened September 22, 1641 ; his wife Saskia died June 14, 1642 ; liaison with Titus's nurse Geertge Dircx, whom he agreed to support after she left his house in * 1649 ; Hendrickje StofFels (Jaghers), who was apparently a servant in * This date taken from Orlers^ Beschryving van Leiden, 1641 ; but Rembrandt's marriage register, followed by Vosmaer, makes it 1607. Houbraken gives June 15. 2 See C. J. Holmes, Burlington Magazine, xii. 102. ^ This house was opened to the public on the tercentenary of Rembrandt's birth. * In 1656 she was in a madhouse, where she died shortly after. Dr. Valentiner and Dr. Bode think that Geertge Dircx may be portrayed in two drawings in Haarlem and the British Museum (H. de G. 1327 and 899), the former having been traditionally called 'Titus's Nurse.' R.E.— 1 — ; REMBRANDT'S ETCHINGS the house when Geertge left (and then twenty-three years of age), re- placed the latter in Rembrandt's affections ; a child by Hendrickje, apparently buried August 15, 1652; in 1653 Rembrandt is in difficulties about the payments still due for his house in the Breestraat, and raises considerable loans : in 1654 Rembrandt and Hendrickje StofFels (Jaghers) are summoned by the council of the reformed community^ to which they belong, on the score of illicit intercourse, and Hendrickje is forbidden to appear at the Lord's S upper ; a third daughter christened Cornelia October 30, 1654 ; arranged in 1655 to purchase a house in the Hoochstraat^ from Dirk and Otto van Cattenburch (money-lenders and art-dealers ?) in return for pictures and prints, in addition to a certain sum of money ; in 1656 declared bankrupt, an inventory, which is still preserved, being made of the whole contents of his house in July of that year ; sales of his house and effects took place between 1657 and 1658, and from then till the end of his life all the money he earned had to go to his creditors, whom he never satisfied ; removed not earlier than 1658, apparently to a lodging in the Rozengracht Hendrickje Stoffels who was recognized in a document of 20 October 1661 (the last in which she is mentioned) as Rembrandt's wife,^ died before 1664; Rembrandt reported* to have spent some time in England about 1661-2 ; Titus, who had attained his legal majority in 1665 (receiving 6952 guilders as the balance of his mother's bequest), was married in February 1668, and died in September of the same year; Rembrandt's granddaughter, Titia van Ryn, baptized INIarch 22 1669 ; Rembrandt died October 4, 1669, and was buried in the Wester- kerk October 8. ^ Baldinucci may have had authority in saying that Rembrandt belonged to the Mennonite Church. 2 H. deG., Urkunden, No. 163. Whether the purchase was ever practically concluded or not is uncertain ; at least the house was not in his possession at the time of the bankruptcy. Compare remarks to etching No. 291. ^ No doubt by courtesy, as Rembrandt was always too poor to afford the loss of Saskia's inheritance, which was vested in him according to the terms of the will until a second marriage. * Vertue's Diaries, 1713. British Museum MS. Add. 21,111, fol. 8: Rembrandt van Rhine was in England, liv'd at Hull in Yorkshire about sixteen or eighteen months, where he painted several Gentlemen and sea-faring mens pictures, one of them is in the possession of Mr. Dahl a sea-captain, with the gentleman's name Rembrant's name and York and the year 166f. Christian. In the margin : Reported by old Laroon who in his youth knew Rembrant at York. (The Christian who is given as author of tradition is no doubt Christian Reisen, medallist and seal engraver, the son of a Norwegian goldsmith, who had settled in London about 1666.