?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 80,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Jupiter and Antiope: the Larger Plate.
Etching and drypoint, 1659. 141x206 mm; 5 5/8x8 1/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2), before the inscription upper right; Usticke's first state (of 2); White and Boon's first state (of 2). A superb, richly-inked and dark impression of this extremely scarce print with burr under the nude's left arm, in the dark shadow above her body, on the cloth above her left foot and on the curtain above Jupiter's head.
According to Usticke, "Extremely rare (RRRR-)." We have found only 6 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 63; Biörklund 54-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 63.
