About the Artwork
The Hermit
17th century
Jan Lievens
1607-1674
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (12.1 × 8.9 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 5/8 inches (12.4 × 9.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S696
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, center left edge of image: IL
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
October 1887, A. Twietmeyer (Leipzig, Germany). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bartsch, A. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes de Rembrandt. Leipzig, 1880, no. 7.
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Jan Lievens, The Hermit, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S696.
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