Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1606–1669

Rembrandt and His Wife Saskia, 1636

rembrandt and his wife saskia by rembrandt van rijn

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Medium: Prints and multiples
Size: 4.12 x 3.62 in. (10.5 x 9.2 cm.)

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Christopher-Clark Fine Art

San Francisco

About this Artwork

Size Notes: In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with 1/4 inch margins outside the platemark on all four sides.
Movement: Baroque Art, Old Masters
Catalogue Raisonné: - Bartsch 19 iii/iii; Hind 144; Biorklund-Barnard 36-A; Usticke 19 iii/vi
1636, framed.
Literature: Christopher Wright, Rembrandt: Self-Portraits, Gordon Fraser, London, 1982, no. 55 (ill.); Christopher White & Quentin Buvelot, Rembrandt by Himself, National Gallery Publications, Ltd., London, 1999, no. 46, p. 163 (ill.); Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1999, no. 166, p. 130 (ill.) and frontispiece (ill.); J.P. Filedt Kok, Rembrandt Etchings & Drawings in the Rembrandt House: A Catalogue, Gary Schwartz, Maarssen, 1972, B. 19, p. 35 (ill.); Clifford S. Ackley, Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter-Draftsman-Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003, no. 58, p. 126 (ill.); Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2006, no. 77, p. 52 (ill.); Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers, Bussum, 2008, no. 11, vol. II p. 15 (ill.);bSeymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, fig. 1.8, p. 7 (ill.).

Description

Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper. A fine 18th century impression of Bartsch’s third and final state, Usticke’s third state of six, New Hollstein’s third state of four, printed after the addition of the patch of heavy cross hatching over the left ear, in which the acid spot to the right of Rembrandt’s collar is still visible, printed by Pierre François Basan circa 1795.