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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
A Scholar in his Study ('Faust')
etching with engraving and drypoint
circa 1652
on thin laid paper, without watermark
a later impression of the fourth state (of seven)
with small margins
some added shading in pen and brown ink and grey wash on the figure and elsewhere
pale brown light-staining and other smaller defects
Plate 20,6 x 15,8 cm. (8 x 614 in.)
Sheet 20,9 x 16,2 cm. (818 x 638 in.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 258.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. von Bartsch, Catalogue raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'Œuvre de Rembrandt..., Vienna, 1797, no. 270.
A.M. Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated, London, 1923, no. 260 (another impression ill.).
C. White & K.G. Boon, Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Rembrandt van Rijn (vol. XVIII), Amsterdam, 1969, no. 270 (another impression ill.).
E. Hinterding, J. Rutgers & G. Luijten, eds., The New Hollstein - Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700: Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2013, no. 270 (another impression ill.).
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