Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave.

Etching and drypoint, 1639. 110x81 mm; 4 3/8x3 1/4, small margins. Usticke's only state (e), with strong contrasts and crisp, partially inky plate edges. A superb, well-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce etching with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.

We have found only 12 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.

Provenance: James Reiss, London, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 1522); unidentified collector, ink stamp with initials and a leaf verso (not in Lugt). Bartsch 109; Biörklund 39-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 109; New Hollstein 174.