May 01, 2013 - Sale 2312

Sale 2312 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 45,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill.

Etching and drypoint, 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 (i-l) (of 3); White and Boon's second state (of 2). A very good, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching, with little to no sign of wear and with strong contrasts.

According to Usticke, "Very scarce--a most desirable portrait (RR-)." Bartsch 21; Biörklund 39-E; Hollstein (White and Boon 21).