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Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill.
Etching, 1639. 206x163 mm; 8 1/4x6 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2), with the cap band completed; Usticke's second state (e) (of 3); White and Boon's second state (of 2). Ex-collectionEdward Vernon Utterson (Lugt 909, lower left recto); and G. J. Morant (Lugt 1823, verso). A superb, well-inked and crisp impression of this extremely scarce print, with little to no sign of wear and with traces of burr on the right side of the cap band, on the stone wall at left and the inside corners of the eyes.
According to Usticke, "Very scarce--a most desirable portrait (RR-)." Bartsch 21; Biörklund 39-E; Hollstein (White and Boon 21).
