The Circumcision in the Stable

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Circumcision in the Stable
1654
Etching printed on paper.
Plate Mark: 95 x 145 mm
RvR 73
NHD 280, IV
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Purchased from Kennedy & Co., December 1925
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Signed and dated upper left, "Rembrandt f 1654" ('d' reversed) and center left: "Rembrandt f 1654".

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Watermark: None.
Luke 2:21.
Additions in state IV not by Rembrandt.
[White] spaces [immediately below the signature in top left hand corner, and along the top border immediately above the Child] filled in with the burin. (White and Boon)

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