Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669 A Cavalry Fight

Etching and drypoint on laid paper with trimmed watermark (Miscellaneous?). (Circa 1639). 14 x 11.4 cm (sheet size).

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Prints

Details

Bartsch 259; White/Boon 259; Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 175 I (von III).

Provenienz:
Sammlung Heinrich Brockhaus (1804-1874), Leipzig, seitdem in Familienbesitz.

Description

Quite an excellent, finely drawn early impression, the sketchy background delicately and finely printed. Before the revisions by Georg Friedrich Schmidt. With a small margin up to approx. 4 mm wide around the platemark. – An 8 mm tear at the lower left edge. A brown stain in the upper right. The upper and lower right corners thinned and with remnants of former mounting verso, otherwise in good condition.