The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate
1642
Etching, with touches of drypoint, on paper.
sheet: 154 x 118 mm; plate mark: 150 x 114 mm
RvR 111
NHD 206, I
Provenance: 
Charles Scarisbrick (1801-1860), Wrightington, nr. Lancaster; Alexandre-Pierre-Franȯis Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
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Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f 1642 (2 reversed)".

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Watermark: None.
John 11:1-44.
Cf. the drawing in Museum Boymans-Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam (Benesch 518). (White and Boon)
Forehead of Lazarus unshaded, though in the earliest impressions some very faint cross-hatching can be made out, which very quickly wore away. (see R.227)

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