Oct 30, 2013 - Sale 2328

Sale 2328 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Beggars Receiving Alms at a Door.

Etching, 1648. 167x128 mm; 6 1/2x5 1/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 6), before the Basan rework; White and Boon's third state (of 3). Partial bunch of grapes watermark (Ash/Fletcher 21 C. a.). A superb impression with no sign of wear, with the delicate diagonal scratches in the blank space on the lower part of the half door, with traces of burr on the upturned brim of the boys hat and with crisp, partially inky plate edges. Bartsch 176; Biörklund 48-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 176.