"Jan Asselyn" by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, (1606-1669) Fresco earthy palette and ghostly germinative

earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms

verso there are three small skinned areas to the sheet corners

7-15/16 x 5-15/16

One of the artist's most striking and larger early color prints

a rapidly drawn and forcefully wrought image of the Buffalo rail yards with great economy and abandon in the rendering of the smoke wafting from the idling engines

"Jan Asselyn" by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch, (1606-1669) Fresco earthy palette and ghostly germinativeEtching with Drypoint, 1630's?, final state, B. 277, 7 3 8 x 6 5 8, signed in the plate lower right, trimmed just within the plate mark, a diagonal line in the paper at lower left extending from the open book on the table up into the background, a sight stain at the left edge, traces of burr still visible in the hat and on the cloak.