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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 20
07.12.2023 19:00UTC +00:00
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£ 40 000
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ID 1071764
Lot 20 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Flight into Egypt: a Night Piece

etching and drypoint

1651

on laid paper, watermark fragment Foolscap

a brilliant, luminous impression of the very rare first state (of ten)

printing very sharply and strongly

cleanly wiped to obtain dramatic contrasts

trimmed to or just outside the platemark

in very good condition, backed

Plate 127 x 110 mm.

Sheet 129 x 111 mm.





Provenance

August Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna (Lugt 33); his posthumous sale, Artaria & Co., Vienna, 6-13 May 1896, lot 229 ('Sehr schöner Druck dieses äusserst seltenen Zustandes. Von Duthuit unter den Seltenheiten der Sammlung citirt') (Fl. 400; to Davidsohn).

Paul Davidsohn (1839-1924), London, Vienna & Berlin (Lugt 654); his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26-29 April 1921, lot 46 ('Abdruck von unvergleichlicher Schöneit und Frische im äusserst seltenen wirklich ersten Plattenzustand, in dem die Unterlippe Josefs noch verlängert erscheint ...') (Mk. 62,000) (to Bum) (cited in Lugt).

Possibly Alfred Bum (1864-1936), Cottbus (without mark and not in Lugt).

With Kleeman Galleries, New York.

Captain Gordon W. Nowell-Usticke (1894-1978), Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands (without mark and not in Lugt); acquired from the above; his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 April - 1 May 1968, lot 258 (...'Blum [sic], Vienna, 1942. Purchased from the Kleeman Galleries'...) ($ 10,500; to Zinser).

Richard H. Zinser (circa 1883-1983), Forest Hills, New York (Lugt 5581, with his pencil inscription on the support sheet); acquired at the above sale; then by descent to his daughter Suzanne A. Rosenborg.

With N. G. Stogdon, Middle Chinnock, Somerset; on consignment from the above.

Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein 53; Hind 253; New Hollstein 262 (this impression cited)

Stogdon 20

E. Dutuit, L'oeuvre complet de Rembrandt, Paris, 1883, Vol. II, p. 171 (this impression cited).
Artist:Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
Applied technique:Drypoint
Art style:Old Masters
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