Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Head of a Man in a Fur Cap, Cyring out
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Sheet (Trimmed to platemark): 3.5 x 3 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Etching
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2011.2204
Provenance/Ownership History: Deaccessioned as a duplicate by the Grafische Sammlung, Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5d). Carl Hirschler (b. 1871 – d. 1941) and Rose Dreyfus Hirschler, Haarlem, The Netherlands (Lugt 633a). Sold by Susan Lewis Kaye, New York, to Robert Wheaton (d. 2010) and Barbara Wheaton, Concord, MA; 2011, gift of Barbara Wheaton to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton