The Spanish gypsy 'Preciosa', Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1642

Title(s)

The Spanish gypsy 'Preciosa'

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1962-58

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 205-1(1)
• Bartsch 120-1(1)
• Hollstein Dutch 120-1(1)

Inscriptions / marks

• mark: ‘symbool in een cirkel’

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

c. 1642

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 134 mm × width 114 mm

What

• Preciosa
• wandering communities: Romani or Roma

Credit line

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

Acquisition

bequest 1962

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. II, p. 95, cat.nr. 205
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 120
• De etsen [uit de schenking De Bruijn], Karel Gerard Boon, p. 111, cat.nr. 62