Artist: After Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Year: c.1880 (This print is from the 1800’s it is NOT a modern print.)
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left
Reference: Bartsch 281, Lugt. 2934
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 18 x 20 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials
Portrait of Jan Uytenbogaert, ‘The Goldweigher’; a well-dressed man sitting in a fur-trimmed cloak and soft beret at a table, writing in a ledger while handing a small bag to a youth who kneels beside him, with chests and barrels in left foreground, a scale hanging from a hanging-shelf above the table which is littered with bags and coins; with a picture of Moses and the brazen serpent on the wall behind and a man and woman waiting at a counter in left background.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.