May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Small Lion Hunt (with One Lion).

Etching, circa 1629. 155x121 mm; 6 1/8x4 3/4 inches, thread margins. Usticke's only state (e), with the profusion of delicate vertical scratches in the background. Foolscap with a 5-pointed collar watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19; they note similar watermarks on impressions of this subject in the British Museum, London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). A superb, early and richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching. Bartsch 116; Biörklund 29-3; Hollstein (White and Boon) 116; New Hollstein 29.