Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

A Beggar with a wooden Leg (B., Holl. 179; H. 12)

細節

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
A Beggar with a wooden Leg (B., Holl. 179; H. 12)
etching, circa 1630, a fine impression of the first state (of two), the delicate work on the unshaded shoulder printing particularly well, with a fragment of a watermark, trimmed to the platemark, in very good condition.
P., S. 114 x 67 mm.

來源

Ducs d'Arenberg (L. 567).

拍品專文

Whilst Rembrandt's studies of beggars are generally free from the caricatural aspects of his contemporaries, he did not fall into the opposite trap of over-romanticising them. Here he depicts a beggar pretending to be a cripple by tying one leg behind him. In the inventory of Clement de Jonghe of 1679 the print appears under the title of Capteijn eenbeen (Captain One-leg), perhaps the name of a real-life denizen of the Amsterdam streets.