REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's first state (i) (of 5), before the Basan edition; White and Boon's third state (of 3). Arms of Berne watermark (?) (Ash/Fletcher 3 B. a.). A very good, well-inked impression with strong contrasts, with the landscape to the left and the bridge still visible and with the upper right quadrant still black, with only very light wear in the black patch beneath the angel's wing and with traces of burr in the clouds of putti, on the goats' faces and on the cow's leg and hind-quarter. Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44.
