?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Presentation in the Temple with an Angel: Small Plate.
Etching, 1630. 104x79 mm; 4 1/8x3 1/8 inches. Biörklund's second state (of 2), after the reduction of the plate; Usticke's only state (e); White and Boon's second state (of 2). Ex-collection Edward Rudge (see Lugt supplement 900); and Albert E. McVitty (see Lugt supplement 1862c; his sale Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 28-29, 1949, lot 116). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark and early impression of this scarce print with all the fine details printing clearly and with burr on the left hand of the priest.
The original McVitty auction catalogue, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1949, accompanies this lot. Bartsch 51; Biörklund 30-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 51.
