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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Beggar Seated on a Bank.
Etching and drypoint, 1630. 94x70 mm; 3 3/4x2 3/4 inches. Usticke's first state (e) (of 2), with the fine vertical lines printing above and to the right of the beggar's head. Trimmed inside the plate mark, approximately 1/4-inch above and 3/4-inch below, and on the plate mark left and right. A superb, early and richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching.
Possibly an early self portrait in the guise of a beggar. There is a strong resemblance in this beggar's face to Rembrandt's Self Portrait, Open-Mouthed, also from 1630 (Bartsch 13, see lot 215). Bartsch 174; Biörklund 30-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 174.
