Nov 06, 2003 - Sale 1983

Sale 1983 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate.

Etching and drypoint, 1642. 151x113 mm; 6x41/2 inches, small to thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2), with the extremely delicate scratches on the forehead of Lazarus, which he describes on the earliest impressions of the first state; Usticke's first state (of 3); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Foolscap watermark. A brilliant, early impression with burr in the shadows at Christ's feet (in front of the kneeling woman seen from the side) and with inky plate edges. Bartsch 72; Biörklund 42-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 72.