Woman bathing her Feet at a Brook (B., Holl. 200; H. 298)

细节

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Woman bathing her Feet at a Brook (B., Holl. 200; H. 298)
etching, 1658, an very fine impression, on Japon, the figure luminous and three-dimensional, the pale gold paper tone particularly effective, cleanly wiped on the figure but with a veil of tone elsewhere, with inky plate edges, narrow margins, a spot of printing ink to the underside of her thigh, a small, unobtrusive pale brown stain at the upper left corner, some very minor soft creasing, a small area of old adhesive at the left sheet edge on the reverse, otherwise in very good condition
P. 158 x 77 mm., S. 162 x 81 mm.

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拍品专文

Rembrandt took the female nude as a subject early on, returning to it several times, and in the course of the last three years of his etching career he produced no less than six prints on this theme. They all impress with the same stark, monumental quality of the drawings he produced at the time.
Fairly common in late impressions, Woman bathing her Feet at a Brook is exceptionally rare in early impressions such as this. The figure is modelled by means of an open system of parallel lines and cross-hatching, giving the composition something of a drawing-like effect, without sacrificing any of its power. The model has been placed in a rather harsh light, but the effect is softened by being printed on a warm-toned yellowish Japanese paper - a scarce and expensive commodity in 17th century Holland.