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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN A Peasant Replying "Dats Niet."
Etching, 1634. 110x40 mm; 4 3/8x1 5/8 inches, wide margins. Ex-collection Friedrich August II (Lugt 971, lower right recto). A superb, dark, crisp and evenly-printed impression of this extremely scarce etching, with strong contrasts
The current work is a pendant to the preceding lot. Loosely translated, the peasant on the left says, "Damned cold" and the peasant on the right replies, "Call that cold?" This exchange is a unique example of the only true companion pieces in Rembrandt's printed œuvre.
According to Usticke, "Very scarce" (RR). We have found only approximately 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 178; Biörklund 34-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 178.
