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Estimate: $ 80,000 - $ 120,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Etching, engraving and drypoint, circa 1643-49. 279x388 mm; 11 1/8x15 1/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2), with the diagonals on the back and neck of the ass at the far right but before the Baillie rework; Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's second state (of 2). Strasburg Lily with pendant initials 4 WR watermark (Hinterding variant I.c.a., page 220, the same watermark is on another early impression of this subject in the Art Institute of Chicago).
A brilliant, richly-inked impression, with abundant burr, notably on the hat of the tallest man to the left of Christ, on the turban and the back of the woman holding the baby before Chist's outstretched right arm, on Christ's hair, on the seated woman and kneeling figure with back turned at Chist's feet and throughout the figures to the right of Christ and on the stones in the arch at the far right. Bartsch 74; Biörklund 49-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 74.
