?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Fourth Oriental Head.
Etching, circa 1635. 158x136 mm; 6 1/4x5 1/2 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3), before the address of Reyger; Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's second state (of 3); New Hollstein third state (of 6). Ex-collection Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein (Lugt 2715a, verso), their sale C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 28, 1935, lot 297; Dr. Hans Müller, Braunschweig; C. G. Borner, Düsseldorf, by 1956, with the stock number in pencil, verso; Richard Harris, Chicago (Lugt 4364, verso). A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce etching, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.
Hinterding cites only a unique impression of the first state and merely 5 impressions of the very scarce second state; the third state of this subject is extremely uncommon as well. We have found fewer than 15 other impressions of this subject in all states at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 289; Biörklund 35-5; Hollstein (White and Boon) 289.
