Apr 29, 2014 - Sale 2347

Sale 2347 - Lot 136

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Christ Healing the Sick (Hundred Guilder Print).

Etching, circa 1649. 284x400 mm; 11 1/4x15 3/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's fifth state (of 5), before the Baillie rework; White and Boon's second state (of 2). Strasbourg Lily (?) watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36).

Ex-collection Theodor Falkeisen (1768-1814) and Johann Friedrich Huber (1766-1832), engravers who operated a printselling business in Basel during the late 18th/early 19th century, ink stamp verso (Lugt 1008). A good, dark and well-inked impression of this important etching. Bartsch 74; Biörklund 49-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 74.