May 05, 2005 - Sale 2042

Sale 2042 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 12,650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ON JAPAN PAPER REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Christ and the Woman of Samaria among Ruins.

Etching and drypoint on tissue thin cream laid Japan paper, 1634. 123x105 mm; 47/8x41/8 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's second state (e) (of 4), with the diagonal stroke in the blank space below the base of the well printing clearly and with no wear in the fine lines in the arches; White and Boon's second state (of 2). A superb, dark and richly-inked impression. Bartsch 71; Biörklund 34-L; Hollstein (White and Boon) 71.