Nov 06, 2003 - Sale 1983

Sale 1983 - Lot 78A

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Christ and the Woman of Samaria: An Arched Print.

Etching and drypoint, 1657-58. 125x160 mm; 5x61/4 inches, small to thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's fourth state (e) (of 4), with the horizontal scratch across the spire in the right background printing clearly and with traces of burr on the woman's hair; White and Boon's third state (of 3). A superb, dark and evenly printed impression with crisp plate edges. Bartsch 70; Biörklund 57-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 70.