Rijksmuseum
Jan Antonides van der Linden
Creator
RembrandtDutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) · 1606–1669
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- 1665
- Medium
- paper
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Object ID
- RP-P-OB-513
From LinkedCulture
This is the last etching Rembrandt ever made, and he was rejected for it. Commissioned in 1665 to produce a portrait of the Leiden physician Jan Antonides van der Linden as a book illustration, Rembrandt ignored the requirement to engrave it and worked in etching and drypoint instead. The print was never used. You can see the loose, almost sketchy lines behind the sitter, a globe and foliage barely defined, with a blank cartouche left empty below, a great career ending entirely on its own terms.
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From the Rijksmuseum record
This portrait of the Leiden physician Jan Antonides van der Linden is Rembrandt’s very last etching. He received the commission through the mediation of his son Titus. The print was intended to serve as a book illustration and thus had to be engraved. Wilful as Rembrandt could be, he executed the likeness instead in etching and drypoint. It was never used for the book.
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