REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher of the Remonstrants.
Etching and drypoint, 1635. 226x187 mm; 9x7 1/2 inches, narrow to small margins. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6), with the horizontal shading lines on the chest below the ruffled collar though with the uneven lower right edge of the octagonal border still uneven; Usticke's fourth state (of 6); White and Boon's sixth state (of 6); New Hollstein's sixth state (of 9). A superb, richly-inked and early impression, with traces of burr in the curtain upper right and in the letter "f." after the artist's signature upper left, and with the delicate horizontal wiping scratches in the black border spaces lower center and upper right distinct. Bartsch 279; Biörklund 35-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 279; New Hollstein 153.
