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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1659. 182x216 mm; 7 1/4x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 4); Usticke's fourth state (e) (of 6); White and Boon's fourth state (of 4); New Hollstein's fifth state (of 6). Proprietary watermark (Ash/Fletcher 39 A. D., which they note as the name "Fliamler (?)" as a counter mark to a grapes watermark, from 1777, and cite on another impression of this subject in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). A very good, dark and richly-inked impression with traces of burr on the hats of the two standing men at the far left and scattered throughout the crowd in the right background.
Provenance: Unidentified collection, the initials F. M. W. ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). Bartsch 94; Biörklund 59-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 94; New Hollstein 312.
