REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606 - 1669) Beggar Man and a Beggar Woman Conversing.
Etching, 1630. 78x66 mm; 3⅛x2⅝ inches, thread margins. Usticke's second state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 3). Bartsch 164; Biörklund 30-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 164; New Hollstein 45.
The two beggars represented on this plate, which is among Rembrandt's (1606-1669) earliest etched compositions with a pair of peasant figures, bear a striking resemblance to the beggar man and woman on his early Sheet of Studies, etching, circa 1632.
