REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Artist's Mother Seated, in an Oriental Headdress: Half Length.
Etching, 1631. 146x128 mm; 5 3/4x5 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3). Usticke's second (i) state (of 4), before the heavy rework; New Hollstein's fifth state (of 6). A very good, lifetime impression of this scarce, early etching.
Provenance: Pierre Gabriel Sentuc, Montrouge (Lugt 3608, verso).
We have found fewer than 20 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 348; Biörklund 31-H; Hollstein (White and Boon) 348.
