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Young Man in Velvet Cap with Books beside Him,

Etching on cream laid paper

Second state

Print impression quality: Very good

Dimensions (Plate): 95 x 82 mm (3.7 x 3.2 in.)

Signed in plate: “Rembrandt 1637”

Accession number: 1941.D1.39

Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1941

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Hames Reiss (Lugt 1522, Lugt 1523); Peter Gellatly (Lugt 1185)

Bibliography: Bartsch 268; H. 151; Münz 58; BB. 37-C; White and Boon second state (with “second outline of cap and the shading on the left cheek removed”).

Work Type: print

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• caps (headgear)
• youth
• books

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