COA and Appraisal included.

Etching on Ingres d'Arches off-white laid paper (watermark) with large margins.

Signed with the initials ("RHL") and dated in the plate (upper left).

The second State According to Bjorklund,

The Sixth State according to Nowell-Eusticke.

A 20th Century impression printed by Marjorie Van Dyke.

From the 'Millennium' Edition limited to 2500 examples.

This superbly printed etching with fine detail, strong contrast and delicate line work was pulled from the original plate as created by Rembrandt in 1650

The plate, formerly in the collection of Dr. Robert Lee Humber (along with 77 other original Rembrandt etching plates) had been on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC since the early 1960's.

Upon Dr. Humber's death in 1970, his heirs sold the collection of plates to museums throughout the world, and a select group of private collectors in 1993. 

The late master printer, Emiliano Sorini spent two years proofing the plate for this etching and along with Marjorie Van Dyke carefully studied various states and proofs of the etchings created from the plate of "Landscape with a Cow Drinking."

This experience provided Ms. Van Dyke, who eventually took over the project, the knowledge and insight to create impressions from the copper plate and gave her direct observation of the dry-point and burin lines, burrs and subtle nuances of the copper plates that Rembrandt had etched.

In creating this impression, Ms. Van Dyke commented, "Because of Rembrandt's mastery of the chiaroscuro technique imparted to him by the work of Caravaggio, careful attention has been paid to the lights and darks of the copper plates to avoid any over-wiping which may render the images more stark than Rembrandt intended... I feel as though we have been granted an opportunity to conduct a dialog with Rembrandt and have adhered faithfully to Rembrandt's intent, vision, anointing technique."

Consequently, as a result of the expertise and delicate and painstaking work of Ms. Van Dyke and Emiliano Sorini, this impression surpasses in richness, quality and subtlety the impressions pulled from the plate in the last two centuries by the previous owners.

It is believed that in this peaceful pastoral image, Rembrandt combined the landscape in the foreground from the surrounding countryside of Amsterdam with a series of mountains in the distance. To achieve the atmospheric quality found in "Landscape with a Cow Drinking" Rembrandt employed very delicate line work created with a fine etching needle.