May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 17,250
?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; 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). Foolscap with a 5-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19 K b). A superb, early impression with 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.