Lot Essay
The present composition is after a print designed by Rembrandt and engraved by Jan Joris van Vliet (see F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish etchings etc., Amsterdam, 1992, XLI, p. 154, no. 12).
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The Baptism of the Eunuch
Details
Follower of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Baptism of the Eunuch
oil on panel
122.3 x 88.8 cm.
The Baptism of the Eunuch
oil on panel
122.3 x 88.8 cm.
Provenance
Weiland Senator Gaedertz, Lübeck, 1864, by whom sold in 1916 to
Archduke Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg, Schwerin.
Archduke Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg, Schwerin.
Literature
F. Schlie, Verzeichnis der Werke älterer Meister in der Grossherzoglichen Galerie zu Schwerin, Schwerin, 1882, p. 33, no. 856.
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