?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Death Appearing to the Wedded Couple from an Open Grave.
Etching, 1639. 110x81 mm; 4 3/8x3 1/4. Usticke's only state (e), with strong contrasts. Partial Strasburg Lily with pendant initials PR (Ash/FLetcher 36 E' a). Ex-collection Hermann Marx (Lugt supplement 2816a, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, well-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce, usually very-lightly printed etching.
We have found only 12 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Bartsch 109; Biörklund 39-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 109.
