May 01, 2003 - Sale 1969

Sale 1969 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
FROM THE LEA COLLECTION REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
A Student at a Table by Candlelight.

Etching, circa 1642. 148x135 mm; 51/2x53/8 inches, small margins. Usticke's first state (i) (of 3), before the outline of the right edge of the candle flame and before the mezzotint additions. Arms of Amsterdam watermark. Ex-collection Charles M. Lea (Lugt supplement 1662, verso). A superb, dark impression. Bartsch 148; Biörklund 42-6; Hollstein (White and Boon) 148.