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Rembrandt van Rijn
The Virgin and Child in the Clouds

1641

About the Item

Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper.  Signed and dated in the plate in the shadows lower center Rembrandt f. / 1641. An excellent, sharp and clear 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch's only state, Usticke and New Hollstein’s first state of two (characterized by G.W. Nowell-Usticke in his 1967 catalogue Rembrandt’s Etchings: States and Values, as “a rather uncommon print." Printed prior to the addition of the two dots in the upper right corner.  Catalog: Bartsch 61; Hind 186; Biorklund-Barnard 41-H; Usticke 61 i/ii; New Hollstein 188 i/ii.
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