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 the 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.
