ID 1071815 
Lot 22  | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Valeur estimée
£ 70 000 – 100 000 
Christ preaching ('La Petite Tombe')
etching and drypoint
circa 1657
on laid paper, without watermark
a brilliant, early 'black sleeve' impression of the first state (of two)
suffused with burr, printing with great clarity, contrasts and remarkable depth
with margins
in very good condition
Plate 154 x 207 mm.
Sheet 164 x 216 mm.
Provenance
George Hibbert (1757-1837), London (Lugt 2849, recto); his sale, Thomas Philipe, London, 17 April 1809 (and following days),13th day, lot 54 ('Little La Tombe, so called after a painter of that name - the subject is Christ preaching to the people - BRILLIANT, with the burr') (£ 3.15; to Champernowne).
Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871-1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon (Lugt 153); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 February 1911, lot 84 ('very fine and full of burr, with margin') (£ 260; to Colnaghi; cited in Lugt).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Obach, London.
Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867-1945), Wilmington, Delaware & Philadelphia (without mark and not in Lugt); his posthumous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Part II. 3-4 April 1946, lot 140 ('Brilliant proof impression') ($ 1,000; to Kennedy).
With Kennedy & Co., New York.
Captain Gordon W. Nowell-Usticke (1894-1978), Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands (without mark and not in Lugt); his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 April - 1 May 1968, lot 284 ($ 9,500; to Kennedy).
With Kennedy Galleries, New York.
With Aldis Browne Fine Arts, New York.
Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above in 1984 (through Frederick Mulder); then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 67; Hind 256; New Hollstein 298 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 31
| Artiste: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) | 
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| Technique appliquée: | Pointe sèche | 
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître | 
| Artiste: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) | 
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| Technique appliquée: | Pointe sèche | 
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître | 
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