Apr 18, 2024 - Sale 2666

Sale 2666 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Old Bearded Man in a High Fur Cap, with Eyes Closed.

Etching, circa 1635. 113x103 mm; 4¾x4¼ inches, thread margins. New Hollstein's second state (of 4), before the strong horizontal shading in the lower right corner. A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.

Provenance: Ernst F. Oppermann, Berlin (Lugt 887).

Bartsch 290; Biörklund 35-3; Hollstein (White and Boon); New Hollstein 148.