Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
A Scholar in his Study ("Faust").

Etching, engraving and drypoint, circa 1652. 213x163 mm; 8 1/2x6 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 4); Usticke's fourth state (of 7); White and Boon's fourth state (of 4); New Hollstein's sixth state (of 7). A very good, richly-inked impression, with traces of burr on the right shoulder and sleeve and in the folds on the lower left sleeve, with strong contrasts and no sign of wear.

Provenance: Victor-Amédée Faure, Paris, with this initials in ink, verso (Lugt 115). Bartsch 270; Biörklund 52-4; Hollstein (White and Boon) 270; New Hollstein 270.