REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam) |
Pieter Haaringh ('Young Haaringh')1655Etching, drypoint and burin, first state of five, 206 x 158 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Catalogue number: Bartsch 275. The sitter of this portrait is the municipal auctioneer Pieter Gerritsz Haaringh (1609-1685). He is often called Haringh the Younger, because he was the cousin of Thomas Jacobsz Haaringh, concierge of the Chamber of Insolvent Estates in Amsterdam. The distinction between "young Haaringh" and "old Haaringh" derives from the fact that Rembrandt etched the pendant portraits of the cousins in or about 1655. |