Oct 31, 2007 - Sale 2126

Sale 2126 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 25,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 35,000 - $ 50,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Nude Man Seated before a Curtain.

Etching and drypoint, 1646. 165x97 mm; 6 1/2x3 7/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 2); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Ex-collection Siegfried Barden (Lugt 218, verso); and Charles Delanglade (Lugt 660, verso). A superb, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce print with strong contrasts and traces of burr in the curtains.

We have found only 8 impressions of this print at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 193; Biörklund 46-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 193.