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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Ship of Fortune.
Etching, a counter proof impression, 1633. 117x169 mm; 4 5/8x6 5/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2), after the reduction of the plate; Usticke's first state (e) (of 1); White and Boon's second state (of 2). Ex-collection Naudet, Paris, dated 1833 in ink (Lugt 1937, verso)
An exceedingly scarce, early counter proof impression, aside from the publication in Herckmans, Der Zeewaert Lof, Amsterdam, 1634.
We have not found another counter proof impression of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 111; Biörklund 33-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 111.
