ID 1071826 
Lot 25  | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 200 000 
The Entombment
etching and drypoint
circa 1654
on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle (Hinterding E.a.)
a superb, intensely atmospheric impression of this rare and important print
third state (of four)
suffused with a strong, varied and selectively wiped plate tone
with much burr and remarkable inky relief
with thread margins
in very good condition
Plate 210 x 161 mm.
Sheet 211 x 162 mm.
Provenance
George Bjørklund (1887- after 1968), Stockholm (Lugt 1138c); his sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 4 June 1957, lot 203 (erroneously described as later impression of the fifth state, 'Späterer Abdruck, auf Papier mit dem Adler und Basler-Stab').
Charles C. Cunningham Jr. (b. 1934), Boston (Lugt 4684).
Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above (through Robert M. Light) in 1982; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 86; Hind 281; New Hollstein 284 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 46
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, 1969-1970, no. 83, p. 123, 132 (illustrated).
Les Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Cabinet des Éstampes. Geneva, États & Achèvement dans la Gravure du XVI au XX Siècle, 1986.
| 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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