Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

A good lifetime impression of New Hollsteins's second (final) state, with fine contrasts and wide margins up to 13 mm. This work is among the artist’s most unusual and, at the same time, most powerful etchings. With unflinching directness, Rembrandt depicts a peasant woman in a crouching position, captured in a moment of utmost intimacy and everyday life.
The work is emblematic of 17th-century Dutch art, in which scenes from simple life gained increasing significance. Nevertheless, this depiction goes beyond the typical genre depictions of everyday life: it confronts the viewer with a subject traditionally considered unworthy of artistic representation, and thereby elevates the mundane to the status of an object of artistic reflection. In this fleeting scene, Rembrandt succeeds in creating a remarkable presence that has lost none of its immediate impact to this day. – In good condition. Very rare.