?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face Dark: Bust.
Etching, 1633. 135x105 mm; 5 3/8x4 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's second state (e) (of 5), before the Watelet rework and with the mouth still bow-shaped; White and Boon's second state (of 2). Partial foolscap watermark (probably Ash/Fletcher 19 A a; they list the watermark on another impression of this subject in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC). Ex-collection D'Arenberg (Lugt 567, verso); Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Lugt 1741, lower left recto); and unknown collectors, indiscernible ink stamps verso. A superb, richly-inked and early impression with no signs of wear and with crisp, partially inky plate edges. Bartsch 17; Biörklund 33-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 17.
