About the Artwork
Beggars at the Door of a House
between 1723 and 1799
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Artist) Dutch, 1606-1669 William Baillie (Artist) English, 1723-1810
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 6 3/8 × 5 inches (16.2 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 3/8 inches (20 × 16.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S45
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Rembrandt. f. 1645.
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
December 1886, Bangs sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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White, C. and Boon, K. G. Rembrandt's Etchings. Amsterdam, 1969, pp. 86-87, no. B 176, copy no. 1.
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William Baillie; after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Beggars at the Door of a House, between 1723 and 1799, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S45.
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