REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, Writing Master: The Smaller Plate.
Etching, drypoint and burin, circa 1658. 260x190 mm; 10 3/8x7 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6), with some trace of the triptych in the background; Usticke's sixh state (of 6); White and Boon's sixth state (of 6). Ex-collection Firmin-Didot (Lugt 119, verso); J. Peoli (Lugt 2020, verso); and Ralph King (Lugt 220, verso). A brilliant, richly-inked, early impression of this extremely scarce etching, with the full blank lower margin.
We have found only 16 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 282; Biörklund 58-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 282.
