ID 1086624
Lot 19 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'
drypoint
1653
on laid paper, watermark Strasbourg Bend (Hinterding D.a.b)
a very fine impression of the extremely rare third state (of five)
printing with much burr and a subtle, selectively wiped plate tone
Plate 387 x 455 mm.
Sheet 396 x 465 mm.
Provenance
Hofbibliothek Vienna; then Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5d; with their stamp and de-accession stamp; see also Lugt 174 & 1260); their duplicates sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 3 May 1932, lot 61 ('… Abdruck von herrlicher Qualität, mit feinem Plattenton, schwerem Grat in den Seitenpartien und mit großer Leuchtkraft des breiten Lichtstrahls in der Mitte. […] Wasserzeichen Lilienbekröntes Wappen.‘ (M 23,000; to Dr Kann for Schocken).
Salman Schocken (1877-1959), Margonin, Zwickau and Jerusalem (without mark and not in Lugt).
Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1966, lot 16 (£ 30,000; to Maison).
With Faerber & Maison, London.
Charles C. Cunningham Jr. (b. 1934), Boston (Lugt 4684); acquired from the above (through Zinser).
With Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, California (on behalf of the above).
Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094; on the support sheet recto); acquired from the above in 1982 (through Laube); then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
REFERENCES
Bartsch, Hollstein 78; Hind 270; New Hollstein 274 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 40 (this impression illustrated)
SELECTED LITERATURE
C.S. Ackley, et al., Rembrandt’s Journey – Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exhibition cataloge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004, pp. 247-253, no. 168 (another impression illustrated).
K. Althaus, Rembrandt – Die Radierungen aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2005-2006, pp. 183-185, no. 77 (fourth state illustrated).
H. Bevers, P. Schatborn, B. Welzel, Rembrandt: The Master & his Workshop – Drawings & Etchings, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, 1991-1992, pp. 264-269, no. 35 (another impression illustrated).
J.Bikker, Rembrandt – Biography of a Rebel, Amsterdam, 2019, pp. 138-139, no. 94 (another impression illustrated).
J. Bikker, G.J.M. Weber, M.E. Wieseman, E. Hinterding, Rembrandt - The Late Works, London, 2014, pp. 159-60, no. 63 (another impression illustrated).
A.T. Eeles, R. A. Hoehn, Rembrandt Prints 1648-1658: A Brilliant Decade, exhibition catalogue, Robert and Karen Hoehn Family Galleries, San Diego, 2015, pp. 48-51, no. 13 (another impression illustrated).
J. A. Ganz, Rembrandt's Century, Munich, 2013 (another impression illustrated).
E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, British Museum, London, pp. 297-304, no. 73 (another impression illustrated).
N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings of Rembrandt in a private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed, 2011, pp. 64-74, nos. 39-41 (this impression illustrated).
C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher – A Study of the Artist at Work, New Haven and London, 1999, 2nd edition, pp. 77-88, fig. 103 (another impression illustrated).
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, 1969, no. 58 (ill.).
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