REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap.
Etching and drypoint, 1640. 151x137 mm; 6x5 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 3); Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 3); New Hollstein's first state (of 2). A superb, richly-inked, crisp and early impression with burr on the thumb of the right hand, on the mouth and nose, on the horizontal lines at the lower edge of the plate and on the lower right edge of the robe. Bartsch 265; Biörklund 40-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 265.
