REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

The hog

1643
Etching, first state of two, 145 x 184 mm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Catalogue number: Bartsch 157.

Behind the highly finished hog in this print, barely sketched, is an excited family of five, smiling as if in anticipation of the meat meal on its way to their table.