Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
The Beheading of St John the Baptist
Details
Bartsch 92; White/Boon 92 II (von II); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 183 III (von III).
Provenienz:
Sammlung Heinrich Brockhaus (1804-1874), Leipzig, seitdem in Familienbesitz.
Description
Excellent, fine and even impression. The plate with all the reworking in the architecture and the added diagonals in the figure of the young woman behind St John. With a margin of up to 6 mm around the platemark. – Verso in the left corners with traces and remnants of former mounting. A tiny, closed tear in the lower left margin, otherwise in good condition.
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