Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate lower right Rembrandt f. 1652 (the “d” reversed).

A strong, clear 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch, Usticke and New Hollstein’s second and final state of this very rare etching, (characterized by G.W. Nowell-Usticke in his 1967 catalogue Rembrandt’s Etchings: States and Values as “a scarce, attractive arched print,” and assigned his scarcity rating of “R+“ [75 to 125 impressions remaining extant in that year], printed after the addition of the distant horizon at the far left and the dead branch to the left of the trees in the center, with touches of burr in the lower right foreground and in the shadows of the center trees.

Catalog: Bartsch 224 ii/ii; Hind 241; Biorklund-Barnard 52-A; Usticke 225 ii/ii; New Hollstein 254 ii/ii.