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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight.
Etching and drypoint, 1654. 208x159 mm; 81/4x63/8 inches. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3). A brilliant, luminous and richly-inked impression with the velvety burr consistent with the earliest impressions of this print, notably on the chest of the figure pulling down the cloth from the cross, on Christ's beard, on the back of the figure supporting Christ's body, on the vertical lines in the cross to the left of the torch and with the spot of burr in the white space beneath the stretcher pole at the lower left. Bartsch 83; Biörklund 54-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 83.
