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Superb later works are Nathan Admonishing David (1655-1656?, Metropolitan Museum), done with a reed pen, and a genre piece, A Woman Sleeping (1655?, British Museum, London), a powerful brush drawing universally praised as one of his finest. Rembrandt’s etchings were internationally renowned even during his lifetime. He exploited the etching process for its unique potential, using scribbling strokes to produce extraordinarily expressive lines. In combination with etching hi employed the drypoint needle, achieving special effects with the burr in his mature graphic work. Indeed, Rembrandt’s most impressive etchings date from hi mature period. They include the magnificent full-length portrait of Jan Six (1647, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), the famous Christ Healing the Sick, also known as the 100 Guilder Print (1642-1645?), the poetic landscape Three Trees (1643), and Christ Preaching, or La Petite Tombe (1652?), all in the British Museum.