May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 189

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Jan Antonides van der Linden, Physician.

Etching, circa 1665. 173x106 mm; 6 7/8x4 1/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6); Usticke's sixth state (of 7); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). A very good impression, scarce with the blank lower margin intact.

Rembrandt's last documented etching, commissioned in 1665 as a frontispiece for an edition of Hippocrates edited by Van der Linden. Bartsch 264; Biörklund 65-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 264.