?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
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). Ex-collection Friedrich August II (Lugt 972, verso). A superb, richly-inked impression with burr on the dense shading above the woman's hat, on the shading between the man's right arm and the woman's leg and in the grass in the lower left corner, with crisp, inky plate edges.
According to Usticke, "A scarce plate (R+)." Bartsch 188; Biörklund 32-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 188.
