Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Bust of an Old Man with a Fur Cap and Flowing Beard, Nearly Full Face.

Etching and drypoint on thin, cream laid paper, circa 1631. 63x54 mm; 2 1/2x2 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 2), with the shading on the bust not reaching the plate mark and with burr on the diagonal lines lower right; White and Boon's first state (of 2). A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early etching. Bartsch 312; Biörklund 31-7; Hollstein (White and Boon) 312.