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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund''s third state (of 3); Usticke''s first state (of 5); White and Boon''s third state (of 3). Basel Crozier watermark (Ash/Fletcher 11 Aa; Heawood 1203, which he dates to 1634; the same watermark on the impression from the British Museum, see Rembrandt the Printmaker, 2000, number 21). A brilliant, richly-inked and luminous impression with strong contrasts, with the landscape over and to the left of the bridge sharp and clear and with the upper right quadrant black, before wear in the black patch beneath the angel''s wing and with touches of burr in the clouds of putti, on the goats'' faces and on the cow''s leg and hind-quarter. Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44.
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund''s third state (of 3); Usticke''s first state (of 5); White and Boon''s third state (of 3). Basel Crozier watermark (Ash/Fletcher 11 Aa; Heawood 1203, which he dates to 1634; the same watermark on the impression from the British Museum, see Rembrandt the Printmaker, 2000, number 21). A brilliant, richly-inked and luminous impression with strong contrasts, with the landscape over and to the left of the bridge sharp and clear and with the upper right quadrant black, before wear in the black patch beneath the angel''s wing and with touches of burr in the clouds of putti, on the goats'' faces and on the cow''s leg and hind-quarter. Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44.
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