?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Sleeping Herdsman.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1644. 78x57 mm; 3x2¼ inches. Usticke's only state (l), with the fine vertical lines on the young man's forehead distinct; New Hollstein's only state. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. Bartsch 189; Biörklund 44-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 189; New Hollstein 217.
Provenance: Charles Delanglade, Marseille, with the ink stamp (Lugt 660, verso).
According to Usticke, "A rare little plate (RR+)."
We have found fewer than eight other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
