Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 50,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre.

Etching and engraving, 1634. 132x107 mm; 5 1/4x4 1/4 inches (oval), wide margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 4); White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 3). Foolscap with a five-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19; Hinterding cites impressions of this subject with the same watermark dating from the 1640s and 1650s). A superb, richly-inked and early impression with very strong contrasts.

Provenance: Frederik Carel Theodoor van Isendoorn à Blois, Vaassen en Gueldre, with the ink stamp on the early mount (Lugt 1407). Bartsch 23; Biörklund 34-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 23; New Hollstein 135.