?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait with Cap Pulled Forward.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1630. 51x42 mm; 2x1 3/4 inches. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5), after the reduction of the plate; Usticke's seventh state (of 7); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5); New Hollstein's ninth state (of 10). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching with strong contrasts.
According to Usticke, "An extremely rare, small self portrait, RRR+" (Usticke illustrates an impression in reverse, which is evidently either a counter proof from the original plate or the reverse copy he notes in his catalogue).
We have found only 15 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 319; Biörklund 31-10; Hollstein (White and Boon) 319; New Hollstein 71.
