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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe).
Etching and drypoint, circa 1652. 155x208 mm; 6 1/8x8 1/4 inches, thread margins. Usitcke's first state (of 3), a "black sleeve" impression. Strasburg Lily watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36). A superb, well-inked and crisp impression with strong contrasts and no sign of wear, with burr on Christ's left sleeve and the folds of his robe, on the beard of the man with the turban upper left and on the back and the right sleeve of the man lower left.
Though technically less complex and with less of the grandeur of Christ Healing the Sick (Hundered Guilder Print), circa 1643-49 (see lots 135 and 230), this etching depicts a similar subject and is commonly seen as being among the most important of Rembrandt's New Testament scenes. The less formal approach to the subject is evident in the figure of the doodling child sprawled out on the floor below Christ and by the inclusion of just a pair of sandaled feet at the extreme lower right corner. Bartsch 67; Biörklund 52-2; Hollstein (White and Boon) 67.
