Nov 05, 2009 - Sale 2193

Sale 2193 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 25,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Presentation in the Temple: Oblong Print.

Etching, circa 1640. 215x292 mm; 8 1/2x11 5/8 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 3); Usticke's third state (of 6), before the complete shading of the bare patch upper left and before the heavy outlining of the rays, vault and pillar; White and Boon's second state (of 3). Foolscap with a 5-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19 A 2). A superb, richly-inked, early impression with selectively-wiped tone in the foreground. Bartsch 49; Biörklund 40-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 49.