Oct 29, 2019 - Sale 2522

Sale 2522 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook.

Etching and drypoint, 1654. 95x143 mm; 3 3/4x5 3/4 inche. Usticke's first state (of 3), with the upper right corner of the plate still square and before the Basan rework. Ex-collectionJulian Manheimer (Lugt 1840d, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark, crisp impression with strong contrasts and traces of burr. Bartsch 55; Biörklund 54-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 55.