May 03, 2007 - Sale 2112

Sale 2112 - Lot 68

Unsold
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife.

Etching and drypoint, 1634. 92x115 mm; 3 5/8x4 1/2 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 5); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Partial foolscap watermark. Ex-collection Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (Lugt 2529, verso); and Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606, verso). A superb, richly-inked impression with burr on Joseph's throat and on the wife's face and beneath her belly. Bartsch 39; Biörklund 34-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 39.