GEORG FRIEDRICH SCHMIDT

1712 Wandlitz – 1775 Berlin

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Portrait of Rembrandt – 1771

Etching. Size of sheet: 24.6 x 17.1cm. Lettered: ‘Rembrandt se ipsum pinx. / G.f. Schmidt fec. aqua for. / 1771’. Lettered in lower margin with a dedication to Le Sueur: "Dédié à Monsieur B.N. Le Sueur par son ami Schmidt’.

Crayen 1789 (151.II); Wessely 1887 (91.II).

Provenance: Falkeisen & Huber (Lugt 1008).

Beautiful richly inked impression with large margins all around in excellent condition.

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Georg Friedrich Schmidt: Portrait of Rembrandt, 1771

After the 1669 self-portrait by Rembrandt in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, inv.no.1871 .

Schmidt, a son of a poor draper, initially attended drawing classes with the aspiration to become a painter. Due to financial problems, he turned to engraving. With time he acquired a reputation that helped him to be accepted to the Academy in Paris. In 1744 he leaves France by the inviation of the Prussian King.

Georg Friedrich Schmidt: Portrait of Rembrandt, 1771

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