ID 587679
Lot 148 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Landscape with a square Tower
etching and drypoint, 1650, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine and atmospheric impression of New Hollstein's third, final state, with the diagonal slipped stroke across the signature, with considerable burr, the vertical wiping marks and other accidental marks in the sky very pronounced, with a light plate tone and inky plate edges, with small margins, in very good condition
Plate 88 x 157 mm., Sheet 94 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Fritz Rumpf (1856-1927), Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam (Lugt 2161); his sale, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 18-23 May 1908, lot 1286 ('Brillanter früher Abdruck. Sehr selten.') (Mk. 1250; to Meder).
With Louis Meder (of Amsler & Ruthardt), Berlin.
Leslie E. Lancy (1911-1996), Ellwood City, Pennsylvania (Lugt 4796).
With Pace Prints, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 218; Hind 245; New Hollstein 250
Cynthia P. Schneider, Rembrandt’s Landscapes – Drawings and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (exh. cat)., 1990, no. 36, p. 152-3 (another impression illustrated).
Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2008, no. 170, p. 399-401 (another impression illustrated).
Nicholas Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed , 2011, no. 95, p. 162-3 (another impression illustrated).
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