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

earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms

signed with initials lower left

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

published in Paris by Francois Delarue

handling crease to left of signature

"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.