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Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Christ before Pilate: Large Plate.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1635-36. 550x447 mm; 21 5/8x17 5/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 5); Usticke's third state (of 4); White and Boon's fourth state (of 5). Strasburg Lily with the letters WR and number 4 watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36 C b, which they cite for this print). A superb, luminous impression of this large, scarce etching, with no sign of wear in even the most densely cross-hatched areas and with all the details printing clearly, with abundant burr in the curtain fold at the right just above the chair and with crisp, partially inky plate edges.
There is also a grisaille painting of this subject by Rembrandt, dated 1634, in the National Gallery, London. Rembrandt included a self-portrait in this etching, one of his largest and most complex prints, in the upper center behind the group of men on the terrace to the left of Christ (the head with the plumed hat). Bartsch 77; Biörklund 35-K; Hollstein (White and Boon) 77.
