SALOMON SAVERY (after Rembrandt) The Good Samaritan.
Etching, after 1633. 250x210 mm; 10x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Partial indiscernible coat-of-arms (?) watermark. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.
Provenance: Franz Gawet, Vienna, with the date 1829 in ink (Lugt 1069, verso).
Savery (1594-1683) was a Dutch printmaker who worked primarily in Amsterdam; he was the son of the Flemish mannerist artist Jacob Savery (1566-1603). Savery's earliest dated print is from 1611. His talent as a printmaker is evidenced by this very deceptive copy of Rembrandt's (1606-1669) etching of the same subject, which dates from 1633 (see Bartsch 90). In order for Savery's etching to appear in the same direction as Rembrandt's, he had to create the design in reverse on the copper printing plate, with all the minute detail of Rembrandt's original work. New Hollstein 116, copy b (under Rembrandt).
