Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Lot 236 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Canal with a large Boat and a Bridge ('Het Schuytje op de voorgrondt')

Closed5 July 2022

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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Canal with a large Boat and a Bridge ('Het Schuytje op de voorgrondt')
etching and drypoint, 1650, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine impression of the second, final state, printing with much burr and a light plate tone, with narrow margins, a tiny rust mark above the boat at centre, otherwise in very good condition
Plate 83 x 108 mm.
Sheet 85 x 111 mm.

Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island (Lugt 1880); his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 18-23 May 1908, lot 1304 ('Abdruck von grösster Schönheit, voll Grat und mit Rändchen. Von dieser Qualität äusserst selten.') (Mk. 1,110; to 'Muller').

Specialist note

This small and exquisite landscape has often been understood as the pendant of another small etching of the same year, Canal with an Angler and two Swans (NH 253), on the basis of the very similar size, style and the rounded platemark above. It has even been speculated that the two plates were once one long plate, which had subsequently been separated by Rembrandt, but this theory has gradually lost support.
The typical Dutch motif of the boat moored in a canal is enriched with a rocky landscape in the left background and other picturesque elements. The present example is a very fine, warm impression with much burr, of the second state. Of the first state, only six impressions are recorded.