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Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn: Oblong
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn: Oblong
etching with touches of drypoint
1641
on laid paper, watermark fragment Strasbourg Lily (Hinterding N.a.)
a brilliant, very early impression
printing darkly and richly, with intense contrasts and great depth
with much burr on the signature and elsewhere
the cityscape at left and the countryside at right remarkably clear
trimmed on or just inside the platemark
the sheet slightly toned, with staining and scattered foxmarks
generally in good condition
Sheet 127 x 320 mm.
Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn: Oblong
etching with touches of drypoint
1641
on laid paper, watermark fragment Strasbourg Lily (Hinterding N.a.)
a brilliant, very early impression
printing darkly and richly, with intense contrasts and great depth
with much burr on the signature and elsewhere
the cityscape at left and the countryside at right remarkably clear
trimmed on or just inside the platemark
the sheet slightly toned, with staining and scattered foxmarks
generally in good condition
Sheet 127 x 320 mm.
Provenance
Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island (Lugt 1880); his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 18-23 May 1908, lot 1295 ('Hauptblatt in einem Abdruck von unübertrefflicher Schönheit, voll Grat. Von dieser Qualität äusserst selten'). (Mk. 4,500; to Keppel) (this impression cited in Lugt)
With Keppel & Co., New York (with their stocknumber a51718 in pencil verso and their label and no. 2493 on the backboard).
John Stanley Ames, USA; acquired from the above in 1909; by descent to the present owner.
With Keppel & Co., New York (with their stocknumber a51718 in pencil verso and their label and no. 2493 on the backboard).
John Stanley Ames, USA; acquired from the above in 1909; by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 225; Hind 177; New Hollstein 199
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