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Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 80,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap: Full Face, Head Only.
Etching, circa 1634. 50x50 mm; 2x2 inches. Usticke's second state (of 2), still with some of the delicate diagonal shading on the left side of the face. Ex-collection Adam Gottlieb Thiermann (Lugt 2434, verso); and Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1633 and 2482, verso). Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, evenly-printed and dark impression of this extremely scarce print.
According to Usticke, "A rare and famous small self portrait (RRR)." We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 20; Biörklund 38-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 20.
