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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Christ before Pilate: Large Plate.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1635-36. 550x447 mm; 21 5/8x17 5/8 inches. 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). Small margins 3 sides, with thread lower margin. A superb impression of this large, scarce etching, with no signs of wear in even the most densely cross-hatched areas and with all the details printing clearly, and traces of burr in the curtain upper right.
There is a grisaille painting of this subject by Rembrandt, dated 1634, in the National Gallery, London. Bartsch 77; Biörklund 35-K; Hollstein (White and Boon) 77.
