Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher of the Remonstrants.

Etching and drypoint, 1635. 226x187 mm; 9x7 3/8 inches. Biörklund's fifth state (of 6); Usticke's third state (of 6); White and Boon's fifth state (of 6); New Hollstein fifth state (of 9). Strasburg Lily with the initials WR watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36, they cite another fifth state, lifetime impression of this subject with an identical watermark in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, richly-inked and early impression, with burr in the curtain upper right and in the letter "f." after the artist's signature upper left, and with the delicate horizontal wiping scratches in the black border spaces lower center and upper right distinct. Bartsch 279; Biörklund 35-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 279.