REMBRANDT VAN RIJN. "Jan Asselijn, Painter ("Krabbetje").".

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN. "Jan Asselijn, Painter ("Krabbetje").". Etching, engraving, and drypoint on cream laid paper, circa 1647. I. 20.3 x 17.2 cm; S. 20.5 x 18.0 cm. Unframed. Bartsch 277; New Hollstein 236. From the fourth, final state. This is Rembrandt's portrait of fellow artist and Dutch landscape painter Asselijn (circa 1614-1652), known as "Krabbetje." Asselijn's left hand was deformed (which Rembrandt has disguised, tucked into the artist's hip) and during his stay in Rome fellow members of the Dutch painters' association, "De Bentvueghels," nicknamed him "krabbetje"--Dutch for "little crab.".

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