May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Ship of Fortune.

Etching, 1633. 113x166 mm; 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches. Biörklund's second state (of 2), after the reduction of the plate; Usticke's first state (e) (of 1), with the fine horizontal line from the building at the left to the top of the statue of Janus printing lightly; White and Boon's second state (of 2). Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, strong impression on thin cream laid paper.

According to Usticke, "scarce" (R). Bartsch 111; Biörklund 33-E; Hollstein (White and Boon) 111.