Oct 31, 2008 - Sale 2160

Sale 2160 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait Drawing at a Window.

Etching and drypoint, 1648. 159x130 mm; 6 1/4x5 1/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5); Usticke's fourth state (of 8); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). Ex-collection d'Arenberg (Lugt 567, verso); and Naudet, Paris, dated 1823 in ink (Lugt 1937, verso). A very good, dark impression with burr on the sheets of paper below the artist's right hand and before the retouching of the face. Bartsch 22; Biörklund 48-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 22.