REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Three Trees

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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
The Three Trees
etching with engraving and drypoint
1643
on laid paper, watermark Strasbourg Lily with countermark WK (Hinterding Ea)
a fine, tonal and atmospheric impression
printing richly and darkly, with intense contrasts
the sulphur tinting in the sky and by the tree very pronounced
just beginning to show a little wear in the densely hatched areas
with thread to narrow margins almost all around
generally in very good condition
Plate 21,3 x 28 cm. (8 ½ x 11 in.)
Sheet 21,4 x 28,2 cm. (8 ½ x 11 in.)
Provenance
Private Collection, USA.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2 June 2007, lot 823.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. von Bartsch, Catalogue raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'Œuvre de Rembrandt..., Vienna, 1797, no. 212, pp. 180-181.
A.M. Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated, London, 1923, no. 205, p. 95.
C. White & K.G. Boon, Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Rembrandt van Rijn (vol. XVIII), Amsterdam, 1969, no. 212, p.103.
E. Hinterding, J. Rutgers & G. Luijten, eds., The New Hollstein - Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700: Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2013, no. 214, pp. 110-111 (another impression ill.).
C. S. Ackley et al., Rembrandt’s Journey – Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2003, pp. 190-192 (another impression ill.).
K. Clark, Landscape into Art, London, 1976, pp. 60-61.
E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, exh. cat., British Museum, London, 2000, no. 48, pp. 207-209 (another impression ill.).
E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Bussum & Paris, 2008, no. 167, vol. I, pp. 390-393, vol. II, p. 187 (another impression ill.).
C. P. Schneider, Rembrandt’s Landscapes – Drawings and Prints, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1990, no. 75, pp. 240-242 (another impression ill.).
C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, New Haven and London, 1999, second edition, pp. 219-221 (another impression ill.).

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