Virgin and Child in the Clouds

Rembrandt
Virgin and Child in the Clouds
Etching & Drypoint
1641

Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper

A fine 17th century impression of Bartsch’s only state, Usticke and New Hollstein’s second and final state (characterized by G.W. Nowell-Usticke in his 1967 catalogue Rembrandt’s Etchings: States and Values, as “a rather uncommon print”), printed after the addition of the two dots in the upper right corner.

Signed and dated in the plate in the shadows lower left Rembrandt f. 1641

Bartsch 61 only

1641

Sheet: 6 11/16 x 4 5/16 inches
Image: 6 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches
Framed: 21 x 18 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches