Young man in a velvet cap (Petrus Sylvius?), Rembrandt van Rijn, 1637

Title(s)

Young man in a velvet cap (Petrus Sylvius?)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1961-1144

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 164-2(2)
• Bartsch 268-2(2)
• Hollstein Dutch 268-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f 1637’
• mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘Schlosser’
• inscription: ‘wzff (?)’
• mark: Lugt 1051
• mark: Lugt 2897
• mark: Lugt 636

Description

Zittende jongeman met baret, ten halven lijve.

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

1637

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 96 mm × width 83 mm

Who

• Petrus Johannes Sylvius

Credit line

• Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1961

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 18, cat.nr. 164
• A portrait of the artist an a young man : Edgar Degas inspired by Rembrandt, Jenny Reynaerts, Stella Versluis-van Dongen, p. 108, afb. 5