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Title: Faust in His Study, Watching a Magic Disk 
Artist: _ Rembrandt
Category: Old Master
Medium: Etching
Framed: Yes
Height: 8 1/4"
Width: 6 3/8"

Original etching with drypoint and burin printed in black ink on laid paper.
c.1652
A strong, dark 18th centruy impression of Bartsch’s third and final state, Usticke’s fourth state of seven, with strong contrasts, showing the three fine vertical lines between the pen in Faust’s hand and the left edge of the desk, probably printed by Charles Henri Watelet circa 1775, prior to the acquisition of the plate by Pierre Francoise Basan and the first publication of the Basan Receuil in 1789.

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