REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606 - 1669) Jan Cornelis Sylvius.
Etching, drypoint and engraving, 1623. 163x142 mm; 6½x5½ inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's second state (of 3); White and Boon's second state (of 2); New Hollstein's second state (of 3). Bartsch 266; Biörklund 33-H; Hollstein (White and Boon) 266; New Hollstein 124.
This is Rembrandt's first etched portrait of the Amsterdam preacher and relative of his wife Saskia, Jan Cornelis Sylvius (he was also the godfather of the couple's first child). Rembrandt (1606-1669) made a second, posthumous portrait etching of Sylvius in 1646 (Bartsch 280).
