Apr 25, 2012 - Sale 2277

Sale 2277 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Goldsmith.

Etching and drypoint, 1655. 80x58 mm; 3 1/8x2 1/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3) ; White and Boon's first state (of 3). A superb, dark and richly-inked impression, with strong contrasts and with all the fine lines printing clearly, with touches of burr on the goldsmith's left eye and in the space between him and the statue. Bartsch 123; Biörklund 55-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 123.