B 74 F

The Hundred Guilder Print – Fragments

French title:

La piece de cent florin
German title:

Christus heilt die Kranken
Dutch title:

Christus predikend – ‘De Honderd Gulden prent’
New Hollstein:

239 F
Rembrandt in Black & White:

250

The original full plate: etching, drypoint and burin. Ca 1648.
Not signed, not dated.
Size of the full plate: 278 x 388 mm. Surface: 1079 cm².
Sizes and surfaces of the four fragments:
A2: 227 x 210 mm, 477 cm².
B: 141 x 75 mm, 106 cm²
C: 54 x 74 mm, 40 cm²
D: 190 x 122 mm, 232 cm²

NH 239 fragment A2

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Copper Plate

The original, complete copperplate was initially owned by an unknown person in Holland and sold around 1775 to the painter and etcher John Greenwood, who resold it the same year to Capt. William Baillie (1723-1810). He heavily reworked and adapted the plate and printed about 100 copies of it. He then cut the plate in four pieces. Separate prints of these were made and published by Boydell.
Each individually quite interesting prints. None of the plate-fragments has survived.

Rarity of impressions

All four fragments are very rare and seldom seen in auctions.
In collections (New Hollstein – 2013): A1 14, A2 (arched) 11, B 22, C 21, D 22.
Nowell-Usticke: The four separate pieces into which the plate was finally cut, are quite rare and good looking.

Description

In the 18^th century Capt. Baillie cut up the plate in four separate fragments of which impressions were published by Boyden.
NH A1 is the central part, with the head of Christ
NH A2 is the same part, now arched.
NH B is the man in the lower left corner
NH C shows the figures leaning on the wall on the left
NH D shows the ass and the camel at right

Rembrandt in Black & White: 250

New Hollstein: 4th state of IV/White-Boon: 2nd state of II.
An exceptional set of all four fragments, printed on three large sheets, each measuring 545 x 402 mm, surface 2191 cm².
In each sheet: Countermark: LB

Exhibitions

Rembrandt, de fotograaf, Westfries Museum (Hoorn), June 2024 – January 2025;