21. Unknown Pupil Of Rembrandt
(ca. 1630-1700)
An Old Woman Sitting by the Door of a Barn (Vertumnus and Pomona)

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Pupil Of Rembrandt, Old Woman

An Old Woman Sitting by the Door of a Barn (Vertumnus and Pomona)

Etching and drypoint, ca. 1650?, 117 x 105 mm., Boon/White p. 192, D ii/ii. Very fine impression of this great rarity on seventeenth-century laid paper with partial thread margins; the upper corners clipped. Our impression is far superior to the one in Amsterdam illustrated by Boon/White, the only other impression of the print we have yet come across, and that one is missing even more of the upper left corner. The print is a double mystery, as the figure of the young woman was apparently added in the second state, changing the character and perhaps the subject of the print to a mythological one. Vertumnus was an Italian god of gardens who tried to woo Pomona in various disguises, finally gaining her presence in the form of an old woman. It was a popular subject in the seventeenth century Netherlands. No specific authorship has been suggested for this print, but the complexity of the workmanship leads one to think that this could not have been his only etching.

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