Oct 29, 2019 - Sale 2522

Sale 2522 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Sick Woman with a Large, White Headdress (Saskia).

Etching and drypoint, circa 1642. 62x51 mm; 2 1/2x2 inches, narrow to thread margins. An even and delicately-printed impression of this extremely scarce etching.

The sitter is purportedly the artist's wife, Saskia, who died at the age of 30 in 1642.

According to Usticke, "An extremely rare, delicate study" (RRR+). We have found only 11 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 359; Biörklund 42-4; Hollstein (White and Boon) 359.