May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?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. 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). Partial Strasburg Lily watermark (Hinterding ZZ.zz., which he notes for the earliest printings of this subject). Trimmed on the plate mark. 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.