Nov 03, 2005 - Sale 2055

Sale 2055 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 12,650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Artist's Mother Seated, in an Oriental Headdress: Half Length.

Etching, 1631. 147x131 mm; 53/4x51/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 4); White and Boon's second state (of 3). A good impression of this scarce, early print with the burnished lines behind and above the figure's head still printing lightly.

We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 348; Biörklund 31-H; Hollstein (White and Boon) 348.