Apr 29, 2014 - Sale 2347

Sale 2347 - Lot 133

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Flute Player.

Etching and drypoint, 1642. 114x143 mm; 4 1/2x5 5/8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's fourth state (of 5); Usticke's fourth state (of 5); White and Boon's fourth state (of 5). Foolscap with a 5-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19; the same watermark is on another fourth state impression of this subject in the Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York). Ex-collection Edward Vernon Utterson (Lugt 909, lower left recto). A very good, well-inked impression with traces of burrand inky plate edges.

According to Usticke, "A scarce plate (R+)." Bartsch 188; Biörklund 32-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 188.