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

Pieter Haaringh ('Young Haaringh')

1655
Etching, 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.