Nov 07, 2002 - Sale 1950

Sale 1950 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 36,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate.

Etching and engraving, 1633. 525x411 mm; 20 3/4x16 1/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 5); Usticke's second state (of 5), before the address of Danckers in the lower margin; White and Boon's second state (of 5). Several short edge tears. A brilliant, dark impression, with even the most densely cross-hatched areas printing clearly. Bartsch 81; Biörklund 33-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 81.