Apr 28, 2011 - Sale 2245

Sale 2245 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
A Man Wearing a Close Cap: Bust (The Artist's Father ?).

Etching, 1630. 78x60 mm; 3 1/8x2 3/8 inches. Biöklund's fifth state (of 5); Usitcke's fifth state (of 6); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression of this uncommon, early print.

According to Usticke, "A very scarce portrait" (RR). Bartsch 304; Biörklund 30-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 304.