Striking 1800s REMBRANDT Antique Etching \"The Lucretia Story\" SIGNED Framed COA
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Striking 1800s REMBRANDT Antique Etching \"The Lucretia Story\" SIGNED Framed COA:
$264.00
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Artist: After Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn Hand Pulled Copper Plate Etching on Laid Paperafter the Original 1664 Oil on canvs by Master EngraverCharles Koepping (German, 1848–1914).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Year:c. 1880
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 8 7/8 x 11 inches
Framed dimensions: Approximately 18 x 20 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes:
This is not a modern reprint. This impression is more than 130 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original oil on canvass is housed in theNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Extra Information:
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden. Around 1632 he moved to Amsterdam, quickly establishing himself as the town’s leading artist. He received many commissions for portraits and history paintings, and attracted a number of students who came to learn his method of painting.
The tragic story of Lucretia, recounted by Livy, took place in Rome in the sixth century BC during the reign of the tyrannical ruler Tarquinius Superbus. Rembrandt portrays Lucretia in utter anguish, right before her act of suicide. The tension surrounding that awful moment poignantly captures the moral dilemma of a woman forced to choose between life and honor.
Lucretia\'s husband, Collatinus, had boasted to his fellow soldiers that her loyalty and virtue were greater than that of their wives. Taking him up on the challenge, the men immediately rode to Rome where they discovered Lucretia and her handmaidens spinning wool. Lucretia\'s very virtue enflamed the desire of Sextus Tarquinius, son of the tyrant, who secretly returned to the house a few days later. Lucretia received him as an honored guest, but he later betrayed that hospitality by entering her chamber and threatening to kill her if she did not yield to him. The next day Lucretia summoned her father and husband, disclosed what had happened, and told them that, even though they deemed her an innocent victim, she was determined to end her life in order to reclaim her honor. Lucretia then drew a knife from her robe, drove it into her heart, and died. Overwhelmed by grief and anger, Lucretia’s father, her husband, and two accompanying friends swore to avenge her death. Lucretia\'s rape and death triggered a revolt that led to the overthrow of monarchical tyranny and the creation of the Roman Republic.
Artist Biography:
Rembrandt van Rijn was aDutch 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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Striking 1800s REMBRANDT Antique Etching \"The Lucretia Story\" SIGNED Framed COA:
$264.00