May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap and Plume.

Etching, 1638. 135x105 mm; 5 1/4x4 1/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's second state (i) (of 3), with the delicate diagonal scratch upper left distinct. A very good, well-inked and crisp impression with contrasts and partially inky plate edges, before the heavy Basan rework. Bartsch 20; Biörklund 38-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 20.