M0006883: Dr. Deyman's anatomy lesson by Rembrandt

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Dr Deyman's anatomy lesson by Rembrandt

Photograph of a wash drawing study of Dr Deyman's anatomy lesson by Rembrandt. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Dessin [Drawing] 22, Etude pour la composition du tableau: la lecon d'anatomie du Docteur Joan Deyman, in the exhibition catalogue. There is a hairline crack through the middle of the plate. The original drawing is held in the Six Collection at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

1 May 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 18 x 13 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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