May 05, 2005 - Sale 2042

Sale 2042 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 25,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap.

Etching and drypoint, 1640. 151x137 mm; 6x51/2 inches, wide margins. Biörklund's first state (of 3); Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 3). Arms of Regensberg watermark (Ash/Fletcher 8A; Heawood 3936, which he dates to circa 1646). A superb, early impression with burr on the thumb of the right hand and on the horizontal lines at the lower edge of the plate. Bartsch 265; Biörklund 40-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 265.