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Portrait of a man in a cossack hat (Dirk Langendÿk): P.14802-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of a man in a cossack hat (Dirk Langendÿk)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bemme, Johannes Adriaansz.

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Description

Etching and drypoint on thin, wove paper. The head and shoulders of a man wearing a cossack-style hat and plaid cotton scarf tied in a knot around his neck. He looks out to a point over the viewer's right shoulder. The sitter is identifiable as Dutch artist, Dirk Langendÿk whose portrait Bemme etched circa 1800 after a painting by German artist Jean Baptiste Scheffer (1765-1809). An impression of this work, which is a more formal portrait of the artist within an oval medallion, is in the Fitzwilliam collection; see P.6563-R. P.14802-R is closely comparable to the design of this portrait after Scheffer but with a reversal wherein the sitter is looking in the opposite direction and with the addition of the neckerchief and hat. It is not known if Bemme produced this etching after a different portrait by Scheffer or if the modifications originated with him. See Notes. There is an etched inscription at upper left: 'J.BEmme d[..]?S / 1803'. An inscription in graphite on the verso: 'Bemme'.

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Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1803

Note

Height 117mm (plate) x width 82mm (plate); height 123mm (sheet) x width (87mm (sheet)

School or Style

Dutch

Techniques used in production

Drypoint
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14802-R
Primary reference Number: 225411
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Thursday 3 January 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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