The Syndics

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Léopold Flameng

1876 · Etching; proof · Drawings and Prints

Flameng was among the last generation of highly-skilled reproductive—or interpretive, as they preferred to be called—printmakers in nineteenth-century France, before photography fully subsumed this practice. He and a small group of devoted etchers considered themselves to be Rembrandt’s successors in their use of the medium. Flameng exhibited this etching after Rembrandt’s The Syndics, 1662 (Rijksmuseum) alongside his interpretation of The Anatomy Lesson, 1632 (Mauritshuis) at the Salon of 1876.

Artist

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Léopold Flameng

Date

1876

Medium

Etching; proof

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, 2018