Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Date1647

MediumEtching with drypoint and burin

DimensionsOverall: 9 9/16 × 7 inches (24.28 × 17.78 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-471

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Exhibition History

Rembrandt van Rijn: The Graphic Works, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, September 12-October 30, 1983, no cat.

Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 3-October 7, 2007, no cat., as Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician.

Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat., as Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician.

Gallery Label

Ephraim Bonus, a friend and neighbor of Rembrandt, was an eminent Portuguese Jewish doctor who was also a translator and publisher of Hebrew writings. This etching is known in two states; that is, the marks on the original copper plate were altered after the first printing, resulting in a second printed image that differed from the first. For example: the incised lines that held the ink describing the man's ring in the first state were effaced, resulting in a ring in this printed state that appears more white. Also, the background appears darker than that of the first printing, due to the addition of incised lines of varying direction that carry more ink.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by August 3, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 226 II/II, pp. 20-21, 27, 38, 98-99, as Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician.

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 226 II/II., (repro.), as Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician.

Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 69 II/II.

George Biörklund, Rembrandt’s Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated, 2^nd ed. (Stockholm: 1968), no. BB 47-A II/II.

Karel G. Boon and Christopher White, Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vols. 18, Rembrandt van Rijn: Text (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1969), no. 278 II/II.

Karel G. Boon and Christopher White, Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vols. 19, Rembrandt van Rijn: Plates (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1969), no. 278 II/II.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 276, (repro.), as Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician.

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