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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 17
07.07.2022 19:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 17 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
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£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)

Christ crucified between two Thieves: ‘The Three Crosses’

drypoint, 1653, on laid paper, watermark Strasbourg Bend (Hinterding D.a.b.), a very fine impression of this highly important subject, the very rare third state (of five), printing with rich burr and a warm, selectively wiped plate-tone, with thread margins on all sides

Plate 386 x 450 mm.

Sheet 388 x 453 mm.





Provenance

(Probably) with Pieter Yver, Amsterdam, from whom acquired for or valued at 49 livres before 1780 by the following,

Gabriel Friedrich Schreiber von Cronstern II (1740-1807), Schloss Nehmten, Schleswig-Hollstein, then by descent in the family to the following,

The Counts of Plessen-Cronstern, their sale: Old Master Prints from a German Family of Title: Part II; Christie’s, London, 18 June 1992, lot 142, where acquired by the present owner.





Literature

REFERENCES

Bartsch, Hollstein 78; Hind 270; New Hollstein 274



SELECTED LITERATURE

J.Bikker, Rembrandt – Biography of a Rebel, Amsterdam, 2019, pp. 138-139, no. 94 (another impression illustrated).

A.T. Eeles, R. A. Hoehn, Rembrandt Prints 1648-1658: A Brilliant Decade, exhibition catalogue, Robert and Karen Hoehn Family Galleries, San Diego, 2015, pp. 48-51, no. 13 (another impression illustrated).

J. Bikker, G.J.M. Weber, M.E. Wieseman, E. Hinterding, Rembrandt - The Late Works, London, 2014, pp. 159-60, no. 63 (another impression illustrated).

N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings of Rembrandt in a private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed, 2011, pp. 64-74, nos. 39-41 (another impression illustrated).

K. Althaus, Rembrandt – Die Radierungen aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2005-2006, pp. 183-185, no. 77 (fourth state illustrated).

C.S. Ackley, et al., Rembrandt’s Journey – Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exhibition cataloge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004, pp. 247-253, no. 168 (another impression illustrated).

E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, British Museum, London, pp. 297-304, no. 73 (another impression illustrated).

C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher – A Study of the Artist at Work, New Haven and London, 1999, 2nd edition, pp. 77-88, fig. 103 (another impression illustrated).

H. Bevers, P. Schatborn, B. Welzel, Rembrandt: The Master & his Workshop – Drawings & Etchings, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, 1991-1992, pp. 264-269, no. 35 (another impression illustrated).



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