Oct 31, 2006 - Sale 2091

Sale 2091 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Grotesque Profile: Man in a High Cap.

Etching, circa 1631. 39x25 mm; 1 1/2x1 inches, small margins. Biörklund's third state (of 4); Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's third state (of 4). A very good impression of this extremely scarce print.

We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. According to Usticke, "A very scarce, tiny grotesque head, top arched." Bartsch 326; Biörklund 31-14; Hollstein (White and Boon) 283263.