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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Etching, 1636. 158x136 mm; 6 1/4x5 1/2 inches, small margins. Usticke's first state (e-i) (of 4), with the toe of the boot at the far right still complete and before any wear in the dark shadows to the right of the son's nose; New Hollstein's second state (of 3). Partial Strasburg Lily watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36, which they date from the late 1600s through the first half of the 1700s, and note as the most prevalent watermark on the impressions of Rembrandt's etchings they studied). A superb, dark impression, with very strong contrasts and no wear in the densely cross-hatched areas, and with the faint landscape and buildings in the left background distinct, and with crisp, partially inky upper left plate edges. Bartsch 91; Biörklund 36-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 91; New Hollstein 159.
