Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAN LIEVENS
Bust of an Old Woman (Rembrandt's Mother).

Etching, circa 1630-40. 118x118 mm; 4 3/4x4 3/4 inches. Second state (of 2). Indiscernible coat-of-arms (?) watermark. Trimmed on or inside the plate mark, with the full subject preserved. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.

We have found approximately only 10 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Hollstein 49.