Lot Essay
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Christ presented to the people (‘Ecce Homo’)
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Christ presented to the people (‘Ecce Homo’)
drypoint, 1655, on joined sheets of warm-toned Japan paper, a superb impression of this highly important subject, New Hollstein’s extremely rare first state (of eight)
Plate 15 x 17 9/16 in. (38.2 x 44.7 cm.).
Sheet 15 . x 17 5/8 in. (38.7 x 44.8 cm.)
Christ presented to the people (‘Ecce Homo’)
drypoint, 1655, on joined sheets of warm-toned Japan paper, a superb impression of this highly important subject, New Hollstein’s extremely rare first state (of eight)
Plate 15 x 17 9/16 in. (38.2 x 44.7 cm.).
Sheet 15 . x 17 5/8 in. (38.7 x 44.8 cm.)
Provenance
Gabriel von Cronstern [II], probably acquired in the 1760s from Pierre Yver in Amsterdam.
By descent in the family of the Grafen Plessen-Cronstern, Schleswig-Holstein; their sale, Christie’s, London, Important Old Master Prints from a German Family of Title – Part I, 10 December 1991, lot 54.
Samuel Josefowitz (1921-2015), Lausanne; acquired at the above sale.
Then by descent to the present owners.
By descent in the family of the Grafen Plessen-Cronstern, Schleswig-Holstein; their sale, Christie’s, London, Important Old Master Prints from a German Family of Title – Part I, 10 December 1991, lot 54.
Samuel Josefowitz (1921-2015), Lausanne; acquired at the above sale.
Then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 76; Hind 271; White & Boon 76; New Hollstein 290
H. Bevers, P. Schatborn, B. Welzel, Rembrandt - The Master and his Workshop, National Gallery, London, & the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1991-1992, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1991, no. 38 (another impression illustrated).
C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher, in Rembrandt: a genius and his impact, National Gallery of Australia, 1997, no. 118
(another impression illustrated).
A. T. Eeles, Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo: A Census of Impressions, in Print Quarterly, Vol. XV, 1998, no. 3, pp. 290-96.
C. White, Rembrandt as an etcher: a study of the artist at work, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1999
(another impression illustrated).
E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, British Museum, London, 2001, no. 78
(another impression illustrated).
C. S. Ackley, T. E. Rassieur et al. Rembrandt’s journey: painter, draftsman, etcher, M.F.A. Publications, Boston, Mass., 2004, no. 174
(another impression illustrated).
N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, Private publication, 2011, no. 35.
E. Hinterding and J. Rutgers, The New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: 1450-1700, Sound and Vision Publishers, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2013, Volume II, no. 290 (another impression illustrated).
J. Bikker, G. J. M. Weber, M. S. Wieseman & E. Hinterding, Rembrandt – The Late Works, National Gallery, London, & the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2014-2015, no. 31 (another impression illustrated).
Charles M. Rosenberg, Rembrandt’s religious prints: the Feddersen collection at the Snite Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, with the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017. no. 51 (another impression illustrated).
H. Bevers, P. Schatborn, B. Welzel, Rembrandt - The Master and his Workshop, National Gallery, London, & the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1991-1992, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1991, no. 38 (another impression illustrated).
C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher, in Rembrandt: a genius and his impact, National Gallery of Australia, 1997, no. 118
(another impression illustrated).
A. T. Eeles, Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo: A Census of Impressions, in Print Quarterly, Vol. XV, 1998, no. 3, pp. 290-96.
C. White, Rembrandt as an etcher: a study of the artist at work, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1999
(another impression illustrated).
E. Hinterding, G. Luijten, M. Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, British Museum, London, 2001, no. 78
(another impression illustrated).
C. S. Ackley, T. E. Rassieur et al. Rembrandt’s journey: painter, draftsman, etcher, M.F.A. Publications, Boston, Mass., 2004, no. 174
(another impression illustrated).
N. Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, Private publication, 2011, no. 35.
E. Hinterding and J. Rutgers, The New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: 1450-1700, Sound and Vision Publishers, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2013, Volume II, no. 290 (another impression illustrated).
J. Bikker, G. J. M. Weber, M. S. Wieseman & E. Hinterding, Rembrandt – The Late Works, National Gallery, London, & the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2014-2015, no. 31 (another impression illustrated).
Charles M. Rosenberg, Rembrandt’s religious prints: the Feddersen collection at the Snite Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, with the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017. no. 51 (another impression illustrated).
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