Portrait of Mennonite preacher Cornelis Claez Anslo. Etching and drypoint on Japan. 18,5 x 15,2 cm. 1641. b. 271, White/Boon (Hollstein) 271 II, Nowell-Usticke 271 III(e) (of VI), Hinterding/Rutgers (New Hollstein) 197 III (of V).
This etching is one of the few for which Rembrandt made a preparatory drawing and finally transferred the design to the copper plate. The drawing, dated 1640 and now in the British Museum, is executed in red chalk heightened with white oil paint and corrected, and is a mirror image of the etching. In the second state Rembrandt reworked the plate with drypoint, creating a greater sense of depth of space as well as plasticity of the figure Anslos. Also with the revisions of the third state, which according to the New Hollstein probably come from Captain William Baillie, this effect is once again strengthened. Present etching is printed on a bright, smooth Japanese paper that is very receptive to printing the finest lines, especially on the plaster wall behind Anslo's chair.- Nowell-Usticke R-: "A scarce portrait." With the revisions such as to the face, but before the renewed exposure of the margin below. Splendid, differentiated print trimmed just to the platemark, trimmed to it on the right. Upper left corner tip barely noticeably reattached, small thin spot in lower right corner, paper minimally broken here on verso, small mounting remnants on verso, otherwise perfect copy. From the collection Joseph R. Ritman (Cat. Artemis Fine Arts & Sotheby's, London, 1995, No. 106).
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