May 06, 2004 - Sale 2005

Sale 2005 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Persian.

Etching, 1632. 108x79 mm; 41/4x31/8 inches, thread margins. Usticke's first state (of 4), with the horizontal scratches above the plume printing clearly. Ex-collection Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Lugt 257 verso and Lugt 1741 lower left recto) and Sammlung Wetterauer, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). A very good, early impression. Bartsch 152; Biörklund 32-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 152.