Oct 31, 2007 - Sale 2126

Sale 2126 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table Looking Right.

Etching and drypoint, circa 1631. 148x132 mm; 5 7/8x5 1/4 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's second state (of 3); White and Boon's second state (of 3), before the plate was cut down and with the nose reworked but still printing with characteristics of the first state. Ex-collection Naudet, dated 1795 in ink (Lugt 1937, verso). Soft horizontal crease in the blank upper area of the sheet. A very good, early impression with traces of burr on the nose. Bartsch 343; Biörklund 31-8; Hollstein (White and Boon) 343.