Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Man Drawing from a Cast.

Etching, circa 1641. 97x66 mm; 3 3/4x2 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's fourth state (of 6). A very good, dark and evenly-printed impression with strong contrasts, all the details distinct and little to no sign of wear.

Provenance: A. Zaleski, Austria, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2671); unidentified collector, with a cardinal's hat and palm frond ink stamp verso (Lugt 2763, he notes the mark might be related to the collector Franz Pokorny, Vienna, Lugt 788, as it appears next to Pokorny's ink stamp on many Rembrandt etchings in public collections); unidentified collector, initials A. T. in a circle violet ink stamp verso (Lugt 183). Bartsch 130; Biörklund 41-4; Hollstein (White and Boon) 130; New Hollstein 192.