Christ preaching ('La Petite Tombe')

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This impression of Rembrandt's La Petite Tombe is printed on silk, not paper, making it one of the rarest variants of one of his most admired etchings. Made around 1657, it shows Christ standing luminous at the center, hands raised, surrounded by a dense crowd of the sick, the elderly, and a figure lying face-down on the ground before him. That soft, atmospheric tone comes directly from the silk itself. Rembrandt reportedly accepted a copy of this print as payment from a dealer who simply could not afford it any other way.

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