May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 31,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.

Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's first state (of 5); White and Boon's third state (of 3). Small shield watermark. A superb, very well-inked and luminous impression with strong contrasts, with the landscape over and to the left of the bridge and the house on the bridge sharp and clear and with the upper right quadrant black, before the wear in the black patch beneath the angel's wing and with touches of burr in the clouds of putti, on the goats' faces and on the cow's leg and hind-quarter. Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44.