Nov 07, 2002 - Sale 1950

Sale 1950 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 10,925
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Rat Catcher.

Etching and drypoint, 1632. 138x125 mm; 5 5/8x5 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's first state (e) (of 2), with the slipped stroke through the rat catcher's shoe printing strongly; White and Boon's third state (of 3). A very good, dark impression of this scarce print, with even the most densely cross-hatched areas printing strongly. Bartsch 121; Biörklund 32-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 121.