REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Star of Kings: a Night Piece.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1651. 94x141 mm; 3 3/4x5 5/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (e) (of 7), with strong burr on the star and on the column to the left of the star and before the heavy horizontal shading lines on the face of the woman at the center; New Hollstein's first state (of 4). A superb, early impression of this densely etched nocturne print, with all the details distinct and with no sign of wear, with strong touches of burr on the star and elsewhere.
Provenance: Adam Gottlieb Thiermann, Berlin, ink stamp verso (Lugt 2434); Peter Gellatly, Essex and London, ink stamp verso (Lugt 1185); Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ink stamps verso (Lugt 1633 and 2482).
Bartsch 113; Biörklund 51-I; Hollstein (White and Boon) 113; New Hollstein 263.
