Apr 29, 2014 - Sale 2347

Sale 2347 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol, Writing Master: larger plate.

Etching, circa 1658. 160x136 mm; 6 1/4x5 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6); Usticke's ninth state (i) (of 11), likely from the P. F. Basan edition or earlier; White and Boon's sixth state (of 6), after the reduction of the plate. Auvergne watermark (Ash/Fletcher 39 E, which they date from around 1742 to 1793 and cite on another impression of this subject in the Natioanl Gallery of Art, Washington, DC). A very good, crisp and well-inked impression with all the details distinct. Bartsch 283; Biörklund 58-F; Hollstein (White and Boon) 283.