Oct 31, 2006 - Sale 2091

Sale 2091 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Flight into Egypt, a Sketch.

Etching and drypoint, circa 1629. 80x52 mm; 3 1/4x2 1/8 inches. Biörklund's sixth state (of 6); Usticke's sixth state (of 6); Whiste and Boon's sixth state (of 6). Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression of this extremely scarce print, a fragment from the same-titled plate, with burr on the neck and beard of Joseph.

We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 54; Biörklund 29-4; Hollstein (White and Boon) 54.