Apr 27, 2010 - Sale 2212

Sale 2212 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Man in an Arbor.

Etching, 1642. 74x57 mm; 3x2 1/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. Usticke's only state (e). Ex-collection Henry Danby Seymour (Lugt 176, verso). A superb, early impression of this scarce print with traces of burr along the horizontal line at the upper part of the plate.

According to Usticke, "A very rare plate, possibly a self portrait (RRR-)." Bartsch 257; Biörklund 42-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 257.