REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 25
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Lot 25 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

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.
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