Christ healing the Sick: 'The Hundred Guilder Print' (B., Holl. 74; H. 236)

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Christ healing the Sick: 'The Hundred Guilder Print' (B., Holl. 74; H. 236)
etching with drypoint and engraving, circa 1649, on pale gold coloured satin, extremely rare, a fine, atmospheric impression of the third (final) state, with the Baillie re-work, several short thin un-inked (?) lines in the upper left of the subject, taped to the mount at the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition
P. 280 x 398 mm., S. 365 x 465 mm.

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Lot Essay

G.-W. Nowell-Usticke, in his seminal work Rembrandt's Etchings, (Livingston Publishing Co., Narberth, PA., 1967) quotes a hand bill advertising the sale of impressions of Rembrandt's most famous print, printed from the plate re-touched by Captain William Baillie in 1775. In ascending order of price are impressions on French paper, Indian paper, and finally 'finest Japan or satin', at 5/5/0 each. Also advertised are impressions from fragments of the composition, Baillie having cut the plate into three sections apparently to assuage collectors' fears that impressions might become 'too common'.

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