Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Angel appearing to the Shepherds
Details
Bartsch 44; White/Boon 44 III (von IV); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 125 III (von VI).
Description
A very good impression of the Third state. With the reworking in the tree in the centre of the picture and the reworking in the angel’s robe, in the back of the cow fleeing to the right and in the back of the sheep. Von Seidlitz describes this print as “Rembrandt’s masterpiece from the mid-1930s”. Here, for the first time, he deliberately uses semi-darkness in such a way that he builds the composition on the contrast between light and dark. The etching was created in 1634, the year of his marriage to Saskia van Uylenburgh. With a 3-4 mm wide margin around the borederlines. – Occasional tiny brown spots and evenly minimally darkened. With occasional small paper defects at the edges. The upper right and lower right corners set and partially re-drawn, otherwise in good condition.
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