Original etching with touches of drypoint and sulphur tinting printed in black ink on laid paper bearing an “LB” counterrmark (Hinterding a-b). Signed and dated in the plate lower right Rembrandt f. 1641.

A superb 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch, Hind, Biorklund/Barnard, Usticke and New Hollstein’s only state of this rare etching (characterized by G.W. Nowell-Usticke in his 1967 catalogue Rembrandt’s Etchings: States and Values as “very uncommon: a popular subject” and assigned his scarcity rating of “R-” [75 to 125 impressions extant in that year]), with touches of burr below the mill, the sulphur tinting at the left and the craquelure in the sky in the center printing clearly.

Catalog: Bartsch 233; Hind 179; Biorklund-Barnard 41-C; Usticke 233; New Hollstein 200.

In excellent condition printed on a sheet with thread margins outside the platemark.