Nov 06, 2003 - Sale 1983

Sale 1983 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 6,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Death of the Virgin.

Etching and drypoint, 1639. 411x312 mm; 161/4x123/8 inches. Biörklund's third state (of 4); Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's second state (of 3). Strasburg lily watermark. Ex-collection Charles M. Lea (Lugt 622a, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark, horizontal fold reinfoced and visible mainly on the verso. A superb, dark and evenly printed impression of this large print with drypoint on the arm of the chair at the right and on the cloth over the table at the left. Bartsch 99; Biörklund 39-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 99.