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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 2
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Lot 2 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Self-Portrait etching at a Window

etching and drypoint

1648

on laid paper, watermark Strasbourg Lily (Hinterding G)

a brilliant, early and very atmospheric impression of New Hollstein's fourth state (of nine)

printing with great clarity, with much burr and a subtle plate tone

Plate 157 x 130 mm.

Sheet 159 x 133 mm.





Provenance

Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), Paris (Lugt 1790), dated 1669.

Jonathan Blackburne (1721-1786), Hale Hall and Liverpool (see Lugt 2650b), dated 1770 and with initials J. D. in pencil (possibly referring to the engravers and dealers John Dean or John Dixon); his posthumous sale, Hutchins, London, 20 March 1786 (and following days), lot 806 (with others; £ 1.12.0 to Smith).

Nathaniel Smith (circa 1738-1809), London (Lugt 2296, with his shop code EIXXB in brown ink); probably his posthumous sale, Dodd, London, 26 April 1809 (and following days), lot 918 (with another).

Moritz Michael Daffinger (1790-1849), Vienna (Lugt 652a; with his inscription in black ink, lacking the estate stamp).

Joseph Daniel Böhm (1794-1865), Vienna (Lugt 271, 272 and 1442); his posthumous sale, Posonyi, Vienna, 4 December 1865 (and following days), lot 594 ('Superber gratiger Abdr. Vor der horizontalen Strichlage, welche die Unterlage, auf welche der Meister zeichnet, in zwei Theiletheilt etc. (Avant les travaux (sic.) au livre, qui lui sert d’appui, etc.) Rare. In tergo : ‘P. Mariette & Daffinger.'). (Fl. 32; to Graf Traun).

(Possibly) Hugo Count of Abensperg-Traun (1828-1904), Vienna and Maissau, Austria (presumably with his stamp; not in Lugt).

August Laube, Zurich (their stocknumber 32907 in pencil verso).

Acquired from the above on 10 February 1972, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

A. von Bartsch, Catalogue raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'Œuvre de Rembrandt..., Vienna, 1797, no. 22, pp. 19-21.

A.M. Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated, London, 1923, no. 229, p. 100 (another impression illustrated).

C. White & K.G. Boon, Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Rembrandt van Rijn (vol. XVIII), Amsterdam, 1969, no. 22, pp. 10 & 11 (another impression illustrated).

N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, 2011, no. 3, pp. 6 & 7 (illustrated).

E. Hinterding, J. Rutgers & G. Luijten, eds., The New Hollstein - Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700: Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2013, no. 240, pp. 155-157 (this impression cited, another impression illustrated).



ADDITIONAL SELECTED LITERATURE:



C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher – A Study of the Artist at Work, London, 1999, pp. 150-152 (another impression illustrated).

C. White & Q. Buvelot, Rembrandt by Himself, exh. cat., London, 1999, no. 62, pp. 186 & 187 (another impression illustrated).

S.S. Dickey, Rembrandt – Portraits in Print, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 128-130 (another impression illustrated).
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