May 01, 2003 - Sale 1969

Sale 1969 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 17,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Bearded Man in a Velvet Cap with a Jewel Clasp.

Etching, 1637. 96x84 mm; 33/4x33/8 inches, wide margins. Usticke's second state (of 2). Partial indiscernible watermark. Ex-collection Cabinet Brentano--Birckenstock (Lugt 345, verso) and Charles M. Lea (Lugt supplement 1662a, verso). A superb, well-inked impression of this scarce print, with all the delicate, fine lines printing clearly. Bartsch 313; Biörklund 37-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 313.