Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors.

Etching and drypoint, 1654. 93x143 mm; 3 5/8x5 5/8 inches, thin margins. Usticke's second state (e) (of 2), with rounded plate corners but with traces of burr on the legs of the tall, standing man at center, likely before the earliest Basan edition. Ex-collection Graphische Sammlung der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, Zurich (Lugt 2066a, verso), with their deaccession ink stamp (Lugt 711b). A superb, richly-inked, crisp impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bartsch 64; Biörklund 54-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 64.