When it comes to etchings depicting landscapes, I don't think anyone did it better than Rembrandt. Here are two marvelous etchings by the master recently sold at Swann Galleries in New York. Enjoy!
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Sale 2258 Lot 139
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Windmill. Etching and drypoint, 1641. 144x208 mm; 5 3/4x8 1/4 inches, thread margins. Counter mark LB watermark (Hinterding variant A.a.b., which he dates to around 1650. The impressions of this subject in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, also have the same watermark). A superb, evenly-printed, dark and early impression, with the sulphur tinting at the left and the craquelure in the sky printing clearly and with burr at the far left lower edge. Bartsch 233; Biörklund 41-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 233. Estimate $50,000-75,000
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Note: My most recent Rembrandt post features a technically brilliant etching of an old man with a beard and a fur cap, quite well dressed really.
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