REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Presentation in the Temple: Oblong Print.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1640. 215x292 mm; 8 1/2x11 5/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's second state (of 6); White and Boon's second state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 5), before the shading of the white spaces along the upper edge of the image and before the Basan rework. A very good, crisp, early impression with all the details distinct.
Provenance: Kurt Klemperer, Germany and Brasil, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 5268). Bartsch 49; Biörklund 40-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 49; New Hollstein 184.
