May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Goldsmith.

Etching and drypoint, 1655. 80x58 mm; 3 1/8x2 1/4 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 3), before the fine, vertical shading on the right of the lowest beam. A superb, richly-inked impression, with very strong contrasts, no sign of wear and with all the fine lines distinct, with touches of burr on the left eye and in the area to the right of the goldsmith. Bartsch 123; Biörklund 55-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 123.