Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketch (B., Holl. 65; New Holl. 267; H. 257)
A 1652 etching and drypoint by Rembrandt depicting Christ disputing with the doctors, presented as a later impression of the first state with visible rust marks along the upper plate edge. The work is printed on paper bearing an Arms of Amsterdam watermark and comes framed.
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint, 1652, a very good though later impression of New Hollstein's first state (of two), with the rust marks along the upper plate edge, on paper with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (cf. Hinterding D-d-a), framed
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Old Master Prints
December 3, 2021
Estimate: $2,000 to $3,000
Lot 68
Artists in conversation
Jacques Callot
French · b. 1592
Callot was a masterful Baroque etcher who shared Rembrandt's skill in creating intimate narrative religious scenes with fine cross hatching and expressive figural groupings in black and white printmaking.
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian · b. 1609
Castiglione worked extensively in etching and drypoint during the Baroque period, producing richly textured biblical and narrative scenes with the same loose sketchy quality and dramatic tonal range seen in this Christ disputing composition.
Hercules Segers
Dutch · b. 1589
Segers was a Dutch Old Master printmaker who worked in etching with experimental techniques and deep tonal contrasts, and his intimate small scale prints share the same Amsterdam printmaking tradition and expressive linear quality that defines this Rembrandt sketch etching.
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