Apr 15, 2025 - Sale 2700

Sale 2700 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606 - 1669)
Beggar Man and a Beggar Woman Conversing.

Etching, 1630. 78x66 mm; 3⅛x2⅝ inches, thread margins. Usticke's second state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 3). Bartsch 164; Biörklund 30-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 164; New Hollstein 45.

Additional Details

The two beggars represented on this plate, which is among Rembrandt's (1606-1669) earliest etched compositions with a pair of peasant figures, bear a striking resemblance to the beggar man and woman on his early Sheet of Studies, etching, circa 1632.