May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 11,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
FROM THE PAAR AND LE SECQ COLLECTIONS REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Abraham and Isaac.

Etching, 1645. 157x130 mm; 6 1/4x5 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's second state (of 3), before the Jean rework. Ex-collection Fürst Karl Paar (Lugt 2009, verso) and Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq (Lugt 1336, verso). A superb, dark and richly-inked impression on thin cream laid paper with all the fine lines printed clearly and with little to no signs of wear. Bartsch 34; Biörklund 45-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 34.