Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

Date1656

MediumEtching with drypoint and burin

DimensionsPlate: 7 3/4 × 5 7/8 inches (19.69 × 14.91 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (28.58 × 23.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell

Object number58-70/31

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Exhibition History

Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 19-November 28, 2010, no cat., as Jan Lutma, Goldsmith.

Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 17-July 15, 2018, no cat., as Jan Lutma, Goldsmith.

Gallery Label

Jan Lutma (ca. 1584?1669) was a famous gold and silversmith in the Golden Age of Dutch silversmith manufacture and a personal friend of Rembrandt. The sitter holds one of his works and sits in a dignified state, suggesting venerable age and experience. His pose in the chair is set off by the bright light from the window in the background.

Provenance

Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 10, 1958;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 1, Introduction and Catalogue (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 290 II/III, pp. v, 23, 41, 116, as Jan Lutma, The Elder, Goldsmith and Sculptor.

Arthur Mayger Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, vol. 2, Etchings (London: Methuen, 1923), no. 290 II/III.

Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1952), no. 277 II/III.

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 56-C.

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. 276 II/III.

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. 276 II/III.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 276, (repro.), as Jan Lutma, Goldsmith.

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