Nov 03, 2005 - Sale 2055

Sale 2055 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 17,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Rat Catcher.

Etching and drypoint, 1632. 138x124 mm; 55/8x5 inches. 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). Partial Pro Patria watermark (Ash/Fletcher 33). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A good, dark impression of this scarce print. Bartsch 121; Biörklund 32-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 121.