PrintsGerman18th century

Old Tobias Mocked by His Wife

1773

Artists

Georg Friedrich SchmidtArtist

Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Medium

Etching on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

German

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

image: 20.5 × 23.5 cm (8 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.) plate: 21.5 × 24 cm (8 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 22.2 × 25 cm (8 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712-1775), Berlin (Lugt 1004). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

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