Apr 25, 2012 - Sale 2277

Sale 2277 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
A Man Wearing a Close Cap: Bust.

Etching, 1630. 77x60 mm; 3 1/8x2 3/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5); Usitcke's fifth state (e) (of 6); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). Ex-collection Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791, verso). A very good, evenly-printed impression of this early etching.

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