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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Agony in the Garden.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1652. 112x85 mm; 4 1/2x3 3/8 inches, narrow margins. Usticke's first state (of 2); New Hollstein's first state (of 3), before the two dots in the plate upper right and the posthumous rework of the plate. A superb, richly-inked, early impression with strong contrasts, with little to no sign of wear and with traces of burr in the dark shadows, particularly lower center. The lower part (three balls) of a foolscap watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19 and 20; they cite impressions of the same subject on paper with a Foolscap with a five-pointed collar watermark in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and on paper with a Foolscap with a seven-pointed collar watermark in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Provenance: Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, with a copy of the original receipt; private collection, New Jersey. Bartsch 75; Biörklund 57-3; Hollstein (White and Boon) 75; New Hollstein 269.
