May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Great Jewish Bride.

Etching and drypoint, 1635. 228x167 mm; 9x6 5/8 inches, small to narrow margins. Biörklund's fifth state (of 5); Usticke's third state (e) (of 3), with traces of burr to the right of the right forearm. Foolscap with a 5-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19; which they date from the 1640s-1650s). A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce etching, with all the fine lines distinct and with little to no sign of wear. Bartsch 340; Biörklund 35-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 340.