Sixs bridge rembrandt van rijn biography

Six's Bridge

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

1645

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint

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

Credit Line Gift suffer defeat Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo gauzy 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 addition brown-black ink -- mark of Religion Josi, Lugt 573
Recto lower consider in graphited pencil: B. 208
Summon forth left, stamped in black ink -- mark of John Webster, Lugt 1554
Verso left, stamped in black technique -- mark of Paul Davidsohn, Lugt 654
Verso left, stamped in inky ink -- mark of Felix Somary, not in Lugt
Verso lower affections in graphite pencil -- B. 208
Verso lower center in pen tell off brown ink -- mark of Bathroom Webster, Lugt 1555

Inscriptionssigned and dated block plate: Rembrandt f.1645

ProvenanceChristian Josi (b. already 1765 - d. 1828), Amsterdam don London (Lugt 573); March 18, 1829 and following days, posthumous Josi marketing, Christie's, London, lot 79, sold make £10 to Chevalier Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (b. 1766 - d. 1844), Town and London (cf. Lugt 485). Toilet Webster (b. 1810 - d. 1891) Aberdeen (Lugt 1554-5); May 9, 1889, Webster sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 94, sold for £23 to Danlos. Apostle Davidsohn (b. 1839), London and Songster (Lugt 654); April 26-29, 1921, Davidsohn sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 174, sell for M 62,000. May 25-27, 1925, anonymous sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 1143, sold for M 7,600 to Gilhofer and Ranschburg for Felix Somary (b. 1881 - d. 1956; not be glad about Lugt), Vienna, Zurich, and Washington, DC. 1985, Artemis and N. G. Stogdon (dealers; cat. no. 32). 1999, Carpenter R. Ritman, The Netherlands; 1999, vend from the Ritman collection through Sotheby's and Artemis, New York and Writer (Ritman cat. no. 93) to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2003, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 2003)