May 01, 2013 - Sale 2312

Sale 2312 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap.

Etching and drypoint, 1640. 151x137 mm; 6x5 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's second state (of 3), with the diagonal slipt stroke from the cap to the left cheek; White and Boon's second state (of 3). Ex-collection Max Hausdorff (Lugt 4071, verso). A very good, early impression with traces of burr on the thumb of the right hand, on the outline of the robe lower right and on the horizontal lines at the lower edge of the plate. Bartsch 265; Biörklund 40-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 265.