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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Negress Lying Down.
Etching, drypoint and engraving, 1658. 82x155 mm; 3 1/4x6 1/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's second state (e) (of 5), before the Basan editions; White and Boon's third state (of 3). A superb, richly-inked and dark impression with considerable burr on the shading lower left beneath the signature, on the blanket and pillow and in the dark shadows above the nude, with little to no sign of wear, the figure with volume as in early impressions. Bartsch 205; Biörklund 58-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 205.
