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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 19
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ID 1308581
Lot 19 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
The Flight into Egypt: a Night Piece
etching and drypoint
1651
on laid paper, without watermark
a brilliant impression of the very rare third state (of ten)
printing very darkly and strongly
with intense contrasts and luminous highlights
with narrow margins on three sides, trimmed to or just outside the subject at left
some tiny losses and thin spots along the sheet edges
otherwise in good condition
Sheet 129 x 111 mm.




Provenance

Probably Heneage Finch, 4th and 5th Earls of Aylesford (1751-1812) (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire (without mark; see Lugt 58); sold with the entire collection to Woodburn in 1846.
With Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London (without his mark; see Lugt 2584).
With W. & G. Smith, London; acquired as part of the stock from the above; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 7-17 May 1849, lot 1033 (with two others; 'third, fourth and fifth states, extremely fine from Lord Aylesford's collection') (£ 11).
John Heywood Hawkins (1802/3-1877), London and Bignor Park, Sussex (Lugt 1471; with his code ∑ω/Τ/ω' and inscribed 'undescribed by Bartsch, Woodburn's £ 4.16.0' and 'W[ilson] 58.3' in pencil verso).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; acquired from the above.
Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London & Dalkeith, Scotland (Lugt 402); acquired from the above; his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 19-22 April 1887, lot 1795 ('Third state; the landscape dark. From the same collections [Aylesford and Hawkins]' (£ 2.1; to Colnaghi).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; acquired at the above sale.
Dr August Sträter (1810-1897), Aachen, Germany (Lugt 787); his posthumous sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 10-14 May 1898, lot 686 ('Prachtvoller Abdruck des dritten Zustandes. [...] Ebenfalls äusserst selten') (Mk. 160; to Mathey).
Paul Mathey (1844-1929), Paris (Lugt 2100b); his sale, Hôtel Drouot (exp. L. Delteil), Paris, 9 April 1924, lot 28 (‘Superbe épreuve du 2e état [sic]. Collection Straeter.’) (Fr. 6,900) (cited in Lugt).
Henri Vever (1854-1943), Paris (without mark; see Lugt 2491bis); then by descent; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1998, lot 87 (to Josefowitz).
Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094); then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein 53; Hind 253; New Hollstein 262 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 21
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