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Description: | The Fitzwilliam Museum proudly curates one of the world's foremost Rembrandt print collections, begun in 1816 with the FounderÃ's Bequest to the museum. The collection also includes one large oil painting with attributed to Rembrandt, "Man in a fanciful costume".
The outstanding selection of original prints include landscapes, nudes, portraits of both Rembrandt and his wife Saskia and religious subjects connected with Christmas and Christ's Passion. RembrandtÃ's well-known power to penetrate the human psyche in self-portraits is as powerful in etching as it is in painting.
The Rembrandt collection is currently undergoing a conservation programme involving the removal of prints from the mounts that they were given in the nineteenth century, when they were taken out of albums. This allows a study of the paper that contributes to an understanding of the circumstances in which RembrandtÃ's plates were printed and will be followed by a fuller analysis with x-radiography. This programme has revealed some fascinating insights into the process of creation; others have come about through comparison between different versions of some prints in the collection. | Subjects: | Etchings Fine arts Prints | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8384 | Go to resource |
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