REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1654. 95x143 mm; 3 3/4x5 3/4 inches, narrow margins. Usticke's second state (of 3); New Hollstein's only state, before the scratches on the Virgin's knee and lap and before the later 18th century Basan impressions. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
Provenance: Johan Peter Samuel Guildal, Copenhagen, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 1110a); his sale, V. Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, June 4, 1931 (according to Lugt, Guildal's sale included 107 fine Rembrandt etchings). Bartsch 55; Biörklund 54-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 55; New Hollstein 277.
