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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 47
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Lot 47 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 700 000
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
with small margins
generally in very good condition
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 Louis 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

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, pp. 255-259, no. 173 & 174 (another impression illustrated).
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, pp. 274-277, no. 38 (another impression illustrated).
J. Bikker, G. J. M. Weber, M. E. Wieseman, E. Hinterding, Rembrandt - The Late Works, National Gallery Company, London, 2014, pp. 92-95, no. 31 & 32 (another impression illustrated).
A. T. Eeles, Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo: A Census of Impressions, in: Print Quarterly, Vol. XV, 1998, pp. 290-296.
E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, British Museum Press, London, 2000, pp. 316-322, no. 78 (another impression illustrated).
E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, THOTH Publishers, Bussum & Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2008, pp. 162-166, no. 62 & 62a.
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, pp. 304-312, no. 51 (another impression illustrated).
N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed, 2011, pp. 56-57, no. 36 (this impression illustrated).
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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