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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Beggar with a Crippled Hand Leaning on a Stick<>.
Etching, circa 1630. 90x42 mm; 3 5/8x1 5/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 5); Usticke's fifth state (of 6); White and Boon's fourth state (of 5). Ex-collection the Albertina, Vienna, ink stamp verso (see Lugt supplement 5d). A superb dark impression of this scarce, early print, with the wiping scratches visible in the background and with inky plate edges.
According to Usticke, "An unobtainable rarity (O-)." We have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 166; Biörklund 30-15; Hollstein (White and Boon) 166.
