Portrait of an Old Woman Plucking a Fowl ("Rembrandt's Mother")
Artwork Details
- Title: Portrait of an Old Woman Plucking a Fowl ("Rembrandt's Mother")
- Engraver: Samuel Arlent Edwards (American (born England), Somerset 1862–1938 Westport, Connecticut)
- Artist: After a painting once attributed to Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
- Date: 1900 (?)
- Medium: Mezzotint on chine collé
- Dimensions: Plate: 15 3/4 × 11 15/16 in. (40 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/2 × 15 3/8 in. (54.6 × 39 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of S. Arlent Edwards, 1923
- Object Number: 23.3.18
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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