Negress Lying Down (Reclining Female Nude)

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An original Rembrandt Van Rijn etching.

1658

Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper

A dark and richly printed 18th century impression of Bartsch’s third and final state, Usticke’s third state of five, New Hollstein’s fifth state of six, printed after the white spots in the upper margin were shaded with cross-hatching, issued by P.F Basan in the Basan Recueil.

Catalog: Bartsch 205 iii/iii; Hind 299; Biroklund-Barnard 58-E; Usticke 205 iii/v; NHD 308 v/ vi

Image Size: 3 3/16 x 6 1/8 inches

Sheet Size: 3 3/16 x 6 1/8 inches

We see a lying nude woman from the back.  In the 18th century the print was called simply “The sleeping woman”; Bartsch was the first to identify the model as a negress.