REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait Drawing at a Window.
Etching and drypoint, 1648. 160x130 mm; 6 3/8x5 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5); Usticke's fourth state (of 8); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). Ex-collection Naudet, dated 1823 (Lugt 1937, verso); and d'Arenberg (Lugt 567, verso). A superb and evenly-printed impression before the retouching of the face, with traces of burr on the sheets of paper below the right hand and with the house and landscape through the window printing clearly. Bartsch 22; Biörklund 48-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 22.
