REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

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Lot 20 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ presented to the People (‘Ecce Homo’)

drypoint

1655

on heavy laid paper, without watermark

a very fine impression of the very rare fifth state (of eight)

printing with considerable burr and a pronounced, subtly modulated plate tone

with fine wiping marks and inky plate edges

Plate 358 x 455 mm.

Sheet 361 x 459 mm.





Provenance

Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), London and Westonbirt, Gloucester (Lugt 2243); his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 11-14 July 1893, lot 417 (£51; to L. Meder of Amsler & Ruthardt).

With Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin; acquired at the above sale.

Valentin Weisbach (1843-1899), Berlin (Lugt 2539b); acquired from the above; then by descent to his son Werner Weisbach (1873-1953), Berlin and Basel (without mark, see Lugt 2659a).

Albert W. Blum (1882-1952), Switzerland and Short Hills, New Jersey (Lugt 79b); acquired from the above, circa 1949 (according to Lugt); then by descent.

With August Laube, Zurich; acquired from the heirs of the above.

Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094; on the support sheet recto), acquired from the above in 1980; then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

REFERENCES

Bartsch, Hollstein 76; Hind 271; New Hollstein 290 (this impression cited)

Stogdon 36



SELECTED LITERATURE

C. S. Ackley, et al., Rembrandt’s Journey – Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exhibition catalogue, MFA Publications, Boston, 2003.

H. Bevers, P. Schatborn, B. Welzel, Rembrandt: the Master and his Workshop – Drawings and Etchings, exhibition catalogue, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1991.

J. Bikker, G. J. M. Weber, M. E. Wieseman, E. Hinterding, Rembrandt - The Late Works, National Gallery Company, London, 2014.

A. T. Eeles, Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo: A Census of Impressions, in: Print Quarterly, Vol. XV, 1998.

E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, British Museum Press, London, 2000.

E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, THOTH Publishers, Bussum & Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2008, no. 62 & 62a, p. 162-166.

Charles M. Rosenberg, Rembrandt’s religious prints: the Feddersen collection at the Snite Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, with the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017.

N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed, 2011.

C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1999 (2nd edition).

C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher, in Rembrandt: a genius and his impact, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997.
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