Apr 25, 2012 - Sale 2277

Sale 2277 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Artist's Mother with her Hand on her Chest: Small Bust.

Etching, 1631. 94x68 mm; 3 3/4x2 3/4 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 4), before the Watelet rework; Usticke's second state (of 7); White and Boon's second state (of 2). Ex-collection Johann Karl Brönner (Lugt 307, verso); and Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 2398, verso). A very good, well-inked and early impression of this rather scarce portrait with all the fine lines showing clearly. Bartsch 349; Biörklund 31-G; Hollstein (White and Boon) 349.