Apr 25, 2012 - Sale 2277

Sale 2277 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Raising of Lazarus: The Larger Plate.

Etching, engraving and drypoint, circa 1632. 371x256 mm; 14 5/8x10 1/8 inches, small to narrow margins. Biörklund's ninth state (of 9); Usticke's eighth state (e-i) (of 10), with no wear in the dense cross-hatching on the back of the man lower left and with the diagonal lines above the figure group at right still partially showing; White and Boon's tenth state (of 10). A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear. Bartsch 73; Biörklund 32-4; Hollstein (White and Boon) 73.