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JAN LIEVENS Bust of a Young Woman with Loose Hair (Saskia van Uylenburgh).
Etching, circa 1630. 165x147 mm; 6 3/4x6 inches, narrow to thread margins. Second state (of 2), with the address of Wyngaerde. Partial indiscernible watermark fragment.
Provenance: Kupferstickabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606, verso); Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler, Berlin (Lugt 2529, verso).
Lievens (1607-1674) shared a studio with Rembrandt (1606-1669) in Leiden from 1625 to 1631 and they remained close friends throughout their lives (even after Lievens had moved to London and Antwerp and Rembrandt had established himself for his career in Amsterdam; in 1656 Rembrandt still owned paintings by Lievens). During the late 1620s, they often collaborated on paintings, of which more than twenty survive in addition to a handful of drawings and etchings: Portrait of a Child, an oil painting in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is inscribed "Lievens retouched by Rembrandt." Around the same time as the current etching, Lievens also made an etched portrait of an older woman, presumed to be Rembrandt's mother (see Hollstein 49).
Saskia and Rembrandt met soon after he moved to Amsterdam at the end of 1631 and in 1634 the couple married. Saskia's first cousin, and an early supporter of Rembrandt, was the influential Dutch art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh. Bartsch 25; Hollstein 43.
