Artist: William Joseph Patterson, American painter and printmaker (20th Century).
Title: "After Rembrandt"
Titled, Signed, and numbered in plate: After Rembrandt; 75/75; Patterson 73.
Dimensions: Image/Platemark 13 1/2" x 11 3/4". Sheet 22" x 17 3/4".
Publisher: Associated American Artists.
Edition: limited, 75 copies.
Date: 1973.
Materials and Techniques: Etching on wove Archer paper.
Watermark: Archer.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: American School XX C.
Note: Depicted Rembrandt's wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh. The original oil painting by Rembrandt is in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel.
W. Patterson possibly based on etching by Léopold Flameng (1831 - 1911) published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in 1869 (Musée d’art et d’histoire de la Ville de Genève E 2015-0985).