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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight.
Etching and drypoint, 1654. 210x163 mm; 8 1/4x6 1/2 inches, small margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3), before the Basan rework. A brilliant, richly-inked, luminous impression with very strong contrasts, with burr on the underarm of the man pulling the shroud off the cross and on Christ's beard, with no sign of wear even in the most densely cross-hatched areas, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bartsch 83; Biörklund 54-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 83.
