?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Jan Lutma, Goldsmith.
Etching and drypoint, 1656. 198x148 mm; 7 3/4x5 7/8 inches. Biörklund's second state (of 3), before the cross-hatch shading in the small triangular space on the upper right side of the window border; Usticke's second state (of 6), before the Watelet and Basan reworkings; White and Boon's second state (of 3). Seven Provinces watermark (Ash/Fletcher 34). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A brilliant, richly-inked, very dark impression with strong contrasts and with burr on and around the vest opening, on the sleeves of the robe, on Lutma's right hand and the statue he is holding and on and around the hammer and other objects on the table at the right, and with little to no sign of wear. Bartsch 276; Biörklund 56-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 276.
