?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Jan Lutma, Goldsmith.
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1656. 196x150 mm; 7 3/4x6 inches, narrow to thread margins. 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 (e) (of 6); White and Boon's second state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 5). 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.
Provenance: Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler, Berlin (Lugt 2529, verso); Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, duplicate impression ink stamp (Lugt 1606, verso). Bartsch 276; Biörklund 56-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 276; New Hollstein 293.
