ID 1071818
Lot 36 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn: Oblong
etching with touches of drypoint
1641
on laid paper, watermark fragment Strasbourg Lily (probably Hinterding C.zz.)
a very fine impression
possibly a proof before the plate was reduced at the top
printing richly and clearly, with great contrasts and depth
with touches of burr on the signature and elsewhere, a light plate tone in places
trimmed to or just outside the platemark on three sides, not showing the platemark above
in very good condition
Sheet 145 x 324 mm.
Provenance
August Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna (with the firm's stamp, Lugt 90); his posthumous sale, Artaria & Co., Vienna, lot 749 ('Épreuve de toute beauté avec barbes. NB. Cette Épreuve est plus haute de presqu'un pouce, mais je ne crois pas que cela constitue un état; je pense que ça provident du tirage.'). (Fl. 585; to Meder of Amsler & Ruthardt).
With Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin; their sale, 17 April 1905 (and following days), lot 1135 ('Prachtvoller Abdruck dieser schönen und geschätzten Landschaft, voll Grat, von tadelloser Erhaltung (...) Abdruck vor Verkleinerung der Platte (...) Unikum.') (Mk. 2130).
Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (circa 1840-1914), Berlin (Lugt 2926).
Private Collection, New York (probably L. E. Havemeyer); exhibited and for sale at Kennedy & Co., New York, January 1929, no. 119.
With Frederick Keppel & Co., New York (their codes CU and HEXV in pencil verso).
With Theo Laurentius, Zaltbommel (inscribed WB and described in pencil verso).
With Kennedy Galleries, New York.
Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above in 1980; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 225 (this impression cited); Hind 177; New Hollstein 199 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 102
W. von Seidlitz, 'Neue Nachträge zu Rembrandts Radierungen', in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 30, 1907, p. 249 (this impression cited).
Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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Applied technique: | Drypoint |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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Applied technique: | Drypoint |
Art style: | Old Masters |
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