REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Etching and drypoint, 1640. 125x103 mm; 5x4 1/8 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 4); White and Boon's second state (of 2); New Hollstein's second state (of 3). A very good, well-inked, crisp impression with the foreground details and the background architectural elements still distinct.
Provenance: Orszagos Képtar, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2000). Bartsch 92; Biörklund 40-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 92; New Hollstein 183.
