Nov 02, 2023 - Sale 2651

Sale 2651 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist.

Etching and drypoint, 1640. 125x103 mm; 5x4 1/8 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 4); White and Boon's second state (of 2); New Hollstein's second state (of 3). A very good, well-inked, crisp impression with the foreground details and the background architectural elements still distinct.

Provenance: Orszagos Képtar, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (Lugt 2000, verso). Bartsch 92; Biörklund 40-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 92; New Hollstein 183.