ID 1086636
Lot 17 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
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.
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Applied technique: | Drypoint, Engraving, Etching |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Applied technique: | Drypoint, Engraving, Etching |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Address of auction |
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