Oct 29, 2019 - Sale 2522

Sale 2522 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
David at Prayer.

Etching, 1652. 143x94 mm; 5 3/4x3 3/4 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's second state (e) (of 3), before the horizontal scratch across David's back, with touches of burr on the bed cover and before any of the Basan rework; White and Boon's second state (of 3). A superb, dark, richly-inked and earlier impression with strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bartsch 41; Biörklund 52-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 41.