May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Circumcision in the Stable.

Etching and drypoint, 1654. 98x148 mm; 4x5 7/8 inches, small to narrow margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 2), with the blank spaces along the upper plate mark. Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Ash/Fletcher 1). A superb, dark impression with strong contrasts and all the fines lines printing clearly. Bartsch 47; Biörklund 54-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 47.