The Syndics
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Syndics
- Etcher: Léopold Flameng (French (born Belgium), Brussels 1831–1911 Paris)
- Artist: After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
- Date: 1876
- Medium: Etching; proof
- Dimensions: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 17 15/16 in. (38 × 45.5 cm)
Image: 10 3/16 × 15 1/16 in. (25.8 × 38.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.614.3
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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