?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 on cream laid Japan paper, 1656. 198x148 mm; 7 3/4x5 7/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3), before the corss-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 retouch; White and Boon's second state (of 3). Partial Strasburg Lily watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36). A superb, richly-inked, 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. Bartsch 276; Biörklund 56-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 276.
