Nov 02, 2021 - Sale 2585

Sale 2585 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Death of the Virgin.

Etching and drypoint, 1639. 390x310 mm; 15 1/2x12 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's second state (of 4), before the Watelet and Basan rework; Usticke's second state (of 5); New Hollstein's fourth state (of 5). Fleur-de-Lys watermark. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression of this large etching with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, with traces of burr. Bartsch 99; Biörklund 39-A; New Hollstein 173.