Auction 320: Prints | 17 November 2023
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

The Good Samaritan

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Auction 320
Lot 302N
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669
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Etching, engraving and drypoint on laid paper with watermark “star” (cf. Erik Hinterding. Rembrandt as an etcher. Catalogue of watermarks (words), vol. II, p. 181. (1633). 25.5 x 20.4 cm (sheet size).

Result: € 29,210*

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Details

Bartsch 90; White/Boon 90 IV (from IV); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 116 IV (from IV).

Description

Very fine, strong impression with high contrast, created in the artist’s earlier years in Amsterdam. Printed before the reduction of the plate and with the signature and date in the lower margin. Classified “R +” by Nowell-Usticke and labelled “A scarce plate, seldom found in fine condition”. Cut just inside the plate edge. – With smoothed, faintly visible creases in the upper right corner on the reverse. With an inconspicuous restoration on the left edge. Faint, isolated foxmarks, otherwise in very good condition. Rarely found in such a fine impression!

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Prints

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