About the Artwork
Portrait of an Officer
1645
Ferdinand Bol
1616-1680
Dutch
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Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 5 3/8 × 4 3/8 inches (13.7 × 11.1 cm) Sheet: 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (14 × 11.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S159
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated (according to Bartsch), in plate at upper left, but very difficult to see: Bol f. 1645.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Watermark, obscured by image along lower left edge: [possibly part of a watermark] Stamped, twice in red, verso: DIA Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
March 1887, Crawcour Sale.1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bartsch, A. Catalogue Raisonne de Toutes les Etampes de Rembrandt, Vol. II. Leipzig, 1880, p. 14, no. 11.
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Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of an Officer, 1645, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S159.
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