May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait in a Cap, Laughing.

Etching, 1630. 50x43 mm; 2x1 3/4 inches, narrow to small margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 6); Usticke's fourth state (of 5); White and Boon's fourth state (of 6); New Hollstein sixth state (of 13). Ex-collection Paul Davidsohn (Lugt 654, verso). A superb, early, richly-inked and evenly-printed impression of this extremely scarce self portrait, with crisp, inky plate edges, very strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.

We have found fewer than 12 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 316; Biörklund 30-P; Hollstein (White and Boon) 316.