An old woman clipping her finger nails. Mezzotint by J.G. Haid after A. van Dijck (?), 1764-1767.
- Dyck, Abraham van, 1635 or 1636-1672.
- Date:
- [between 1764 and 1767]
- Reference:
- 33891i
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Description
"An elderly woman cutting her finger nails. She has on an ample cloak, bordered with fur, and wears a scarf on her head, and is seated in an arm-chair, bending forward, and cutting her nails with scissors. A table, on which are a box and a cloth, stands by her side. The figure is seen to the knees. Engraved in mezzotinto, by J. G. Haid, under the title of Rembrandt's mother, and described from the print."--Smith, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
[London] : J. Boydell, [between 1764 and 1767]
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint ; image 45.5 x 35.4 cm
Lettering
Rembrandt pinxt. ; J. Boydell exct. ; J.G. Haid fecit
Creator/production credits
"The brothers Johann Gottfried Haid (1710–1776) and Johann Elias Haid (1739–1809) ... worked almost exclusively for Boydell during a period in London from 1764 to 1767, producing prints after Zoffany, Reynolds, and the old masters"--Oxford dictionary of national biography, s.v. Boydell, John, engravers
References note
John Smith. A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. 7, London, 1836, p. 75, no. 180
Jonathan Bikker, Willem Drost (1633-1659): a Rembrandt pupil in Amsterdam and Venice, New Haven 2005, pp. 127, fig. R1e
G. Wuestman, 'Withered Nell or Rembrandt's aunt? Prints of tronies and their titles', Simiolus, 2006, 32: 58-77, pp. 71, 76
Reference
Wellcome Collection 33891i
Reproduction note
After: a painting bequeathed by Benjamin Altman to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1913
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