Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1606–1669

Abraham's Sacrifice, 1655

abraham's sacrifice by rembrandt van rijn

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Medium: Prints and multiples, Etching and drypoint
Size: 6.12 x 5.19 in. (15.5 x 13.2 cm.)

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Christopher-Clark Fine Art

San Francisco

About this Artwork

Size Notes: In excellent condition, trimmed down to the platemark on all four sides.
Movement: Baroque Art, Old Masters
Catalogue Raisonné: - Bartsch 35; Hind 283; Biorklund-Barnard 55-B; Usticke 35; New Hollstein 287.
Literature: Julius S. Held, Rembrandt and the Book of Tobit, The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1964, no. 31 (ill.); Holm Bevers, Peter Schatborn, Barbara Welzel, Rembrandt: The Master & his Workshop, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1991, pp. 278-280, no. 39 (ill.); Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1999, pp. 104-105, no. 130 (ill.);
Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt the Printmaker, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago & Lonson, 2000, pp. 313-315, no. 77 (ill.); Michael Zell, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 2002, fir. 112, p. 188 (ill.); The Gospel According to Rembrandt, The University of San Diego, Founders Gallery, 2004, pp. 18-19, fig. 13 (ill.); Shelly Perlove/Larry Silver, Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2009, fig. 52, p. 91 (ill.).

Description

Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper bearing a portion of an unidentified watermark. A superb, dark and richly printed 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch, Usticke and New Hollstein’s only state of this desirable etching, showing touches of burr.