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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Presentation in the Temple: Oblong Print.
Etching on thin, cream laid paper, circa 1640. 215x292 mm; 8 1/2x11 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's fourth state (e) (of 6), likely before or from the earliest Basan edition; White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's fifth state (of 5). Shield (?) with the word Paris and the date 1680 watermark (Ash/Fletcher 39 A). A very good, strong impression of this large etching, with strong contrasts and with the robes of Simeon and Mary dark and distinct. Bartsch 49; Biörklund 40-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 49; New Hollstein 184.
