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Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Title: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Medium: Original richly inked hand pulled copper plate etching, engraving and drypoint on laid paper. 
Year: Early 1800's
Signature: Signed in the plate
Reference: Bartsch 44
Condition: Small border around pate line, a few tiny brown spots, visible on reverse, paper slightly darkened. The top right corner and upper center shows signs of old handlining creases, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions: Image 8 11/16 x 10 1/4
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 23 1/4 x 25 inches
Framing: Gallery Matted and Framed in a New Solid Wood Moulding

Additional Notes:This is a strong 4th state print with the changed shading around the angel and the additional clouds around it. The tree stump in the center of the image has been revised with new contours.

Extra Information:Von Seidlitz describes this print as “Rembrandt’s masterpiece from the mid-thirties. For the first time he consciously uses the semi-darkness in such a way that he builds the composition on the contrast of light to darkness. 
Here, Rembrandt shows how the herdsmen in Luke 2:8–20 were confronted in the middle of the night by a large winged angel, lit by the glory of God, who came to tell of the birth of Christ. This work presents Rembrandt’s visualization of the scene, in which the serene angel radiates calm and blessing in the clouds, while on the ground the beasts scatter in total panic and the herdsmen recoil in terror.



Artist Biography:Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.


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