292 - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606, Leiden – Amsterdam, 1669), Jan Antonides van der Linden.

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606, Leiden – Amsterdam, 1669), Jan Antonides van der Linden. Etching, engraving on laid paper. (1665). 17.4 x 11.2 cm (sheet). Bartsch 264; White/Boon 264 V (of V); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 314 VI (of VII). Provenance: Bérnard André-Denis (1806–1873), Paris, with his collector’s stamp on the reverse (Lugt 75); Carl Julius Kollmann (1820–1875), Dresden, with his handwritten collector’s mark on the reverse (Lugt 1585); Georg Rath (1828–1904), Budapest, with his collector’s stamp on the reverse (Lugt 1206); Paul Davidsohn (1839–1924?), Danzig, London, Vienna, and Berlin, with his collector’s stamp and handwritten annotation in pencil on the reverse (Lugt 654); P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, (with their stock number C. 19449 in pencil on the reverse); Hendricus Egbertus ten Cate (1868–1955), Almelo, Netherlands, with his collector’s stamp on the reverse (Lugt 533b). A very good and striking impression, still showing traces of burr in the darker areas. It has a fine margin around the platemark and an unworked lower margin beneath the image, intended for the sitter’s name. Rembrandt’s final etching was commissioned by the sitter’s son, Hendrick van der Linden, as the frontispiece for his father’s *Magni Hippocratis coi Opera omnia*, published in 1665. The portrait was ultimately not included in the publication, apparently because it did not meet with the approval of the commissioners. – A faint light brown stain in the upper left corner. On the reverse, there is a minute, pinhead-sized area of paper thinning at the center of the upper margin. Otherwise in good condition. Taxation: subject to standard taxation (VAT: Regular Taxation).