Apr 27, 2010 - Sale 2212

Sale 2212 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, Three-Quarters Right (The Artist's Father ?).

Etching, 1630. 102x84 mm; 4 1/8x3 3/8 inches, small to narrow margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's third state (e) (of 6), with the slipped stroke across the right ear still printing strongly and with portions of the slipped stroke extending beyond the ear; White and Boon's third state (of 3). Ex-collection Pokorny (?) (Lugt 2763, verso). A superb, richly-inked and dark impression with all the fine lines printing clearly. Bartsch 321; Biörklund 30-F; Hollstein (White and Boon) 321.