May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Hog.

Etching and drypoint, 1643. 147x186 mm; 5 7/8x7 3/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 3); Usticke's first state (e) (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Partial foolscap watermark. A superb, early impression of this scarce print, with inky plate edges, with burr printing on the hog's belly and with traces of the sulphur tint lower left and lower center. Bartsch 157; Biörklund 43-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 157.