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Christ before Pilate: Large Plate
.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1635-36. 550x447 mm; 21
5
/
8
x17
5
/
8
inches. Biörklund’s
fourth state (of 5); Usticke’s third state (of 4); White and Boon’s fourth state (of 5).
Strasburg Lily watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36 C, which they cite for this print). Ex-collection
Charles M. Lea (Lugt 1662a, verso).With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark.
A brilliant, luminous, richly-inked impression of this large, scarce etching, with very strong
contrasts and no sign of wear in even the most densely cross-hatched areas and with all
the details printing clearly, and traces of burr in the folds of the curtain upper right.
There is also a
grisaille
painting of this subject by Rembrandt, dated 1634, in the National
Gallery, London. Rembrandt included a self-portrait in this etching, one of his largest and
most complex prints, in the upper center behind the group of men on the terrace to the
left of Christ (the head with the plumed hat). Bartsch 77; Biörklund 35-K; Hollstein
(White and Boon) 77.
[60,000/90,000]