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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 17
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Lot 17 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Three Trees

etching with engraving and drypoint

1643

on laid paper, watermark Foolscap with five-pointed Collar (Hinterding A.a.a.)

a brilliant, early and very atmospheric impression of this highly important landscape

printing very richly and darkly, with great depth, intense contrasts and selectively wiped highlights

the sulphur tinting in the sky very pronounced

Plate 214 x 280 mm.

Sheet 221 x 287 mm.





Provenance

Sir Henry James Johnson, Sotheby’s, London, 18 May 1926 ('With the sulphar [sic] tints and drypoint touches characteristic of the earliest impressions').

With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1926 (with their stocknumber C.64707 in pencil verso).

Isaac de Bruijn (1872-1953) and Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Muri bei Bern (without mark and not in Lugt); acquired for Fl. 15,700; bequeathed to the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, in 1961.

Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (Lugt 2228a, and their duplicate stamp; inv. no. RP-P-1962-72).

With Robert M. Light, Boston; acquired in exchange from the above, for a third state-impression of Christ presented to the people ('Ecce Homo') (inv. no. RP-P-1975-1; with three others), in January 1975.

Charles C. Cunningham Jr. (b. 1934), Boston (without his mark, see Lugt 4684); acquired from the above.

Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094, on the window mount verso); acquired from the above in 1978 (through Robert M. Light); then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

REFERENCES

Bartsch, Hollstein 212; Hind 205; New Hollstein 214 (this impression cited)

Stogdon 93



SELECTED LITERATURE

C. S. Ackley, et al., Rembrandt’s Journey – Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exhibition catalogue, MFA Publications, Boston, 2003, p. 190-192 (another impression illustrated).

K. Clark, Landscape into Art, John Murray, London, 1976, p. 60-61.

E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, British Museum Press, London, 2000, no. 48, p. 207-209 (another impression illustrated).

E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, THOTH Publishers, Bussum & Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2008.

C. P. Schneider, Rembrandt’s Landscapes – Drawings and Prints, exhibition catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1990, no. 75, p. 240-242 (another impression illustrated).

C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1999, second edition, p. 219-221.
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