Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1665. 173x106 mm; 6 7/8x4 1/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 6); Usticke's sixth state (of 7); White and Boon's fourth state (of 5); New Hollstein's fifth state (of 7). A very good, richly-inked and early impression, with the blank lower margin intact, with strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
Rembrandt's (1606-1669) last documented etching, commissioned on December 22, 1664 as a frontispiece for an edition of Hippocrates edited by the recently deceased van der Linden (1609-1664), and given two weeks by the Leiden publishers Daniel and Abraham van Gaasbeeck to complete the portrait. Bartsch 264; Biörklund 65-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 264; New Hollstein 314.
