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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight.<>
Etching and drypoint, 1654. 212x163 mm; 8 3/8x6 1/2 inches, small margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3). Indiscernable watermark. Ex-collection Sessler, Philadelphia, and private collection, San Marino. A brilliant, early impression, richly-inked overall 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 and on the vertical lines in the cross to the left of the torch; with sharp and squared plate edges. Bartsch 83; Biöklund 54-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 83.
