REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's first state (of 5); White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 6. Auvergne watermark (Ash/Fletcher 39 E. and F., which they date to the mid-1700s). A very good, well-inked and crisp impression with strong contrasts, before significant wear in the black patch beneath the angel's wing and with touches of burr in the clouds of putti, on the goats' faces and on the cow's leg and hind-quarter.
Provenance: Raphael Grigorievich Goldberg, Saint Petersburg, with the violet ink stamp on the old mount (Lugt 5371). Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44; New Hollstein 125.
