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Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper
A superb 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch’s only state, Usticke’s first state of three, New Hollstein’s first state of two, showing excellent contrasts throughout, printed prior to the late extensive reworking in drypoint of the background and the figures.
Catalog: Bartsch 67; Hind 256; Biorklund-Barnard 52-2; Usticke 67 i/iii; New Hollstein 298 i/ii
Literature regarding this artwork: Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1999, no. 80, p. 67 (ill.); Erik Hinteding/Ger Luijten/Martin Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago & London, 2000, no. 668, p. 281 (ill.); Clifford S. Ackley, Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter-Draftsman-Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003, no. 136, p. 206 (ill.); Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publshers, Bussum, 2008, no. 53, vol. II p. 60 (ill.); Shelly Perlove & Larry Silver, Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2009, p. 271 (ill.).
Collections in which this stater of this etching can be found: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Museum; Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam; Baltimore Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum Basel; Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche Museen, Berlin; Kornfeld Collection, Bern; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kunsthalle Bremen; Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig; Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels; Szépmüvészéti Museum, Budapest; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The Art Institute of Chicago; Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg; Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen; Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow: Graphischen Sammlung des Hessischen Landesmuseums, Darmstadt; Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, Florence; Graphische Sammlung des Städel Museums, Frankfurt; Alte Galerie des Steiermärkischen Landesmuseums, Graz; Teylers Museum, Haarlem; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Prentenkabinet der Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden; The British Museum, London; Victor and Albert Museum, London; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Yale University Library, New Haven; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York; The New York Public Library,New York; Norwich Castle Museum; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Musée du Petit Palais, Paris; Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; Kulturhistorisk Museum – De Bulske Stuer, Randers; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; The St. Louis Art Museum; Staatsgelerie Stuttgart; Musé Jenisch, Vevey; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; Muzeum Narodowe Warszawie, Warsaw; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kunstsammlungen Weimar.
