Nov 03, 2005 - Sale 2055

Sale 2055 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 8,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Stoning of St. Stephen.

Etching and drypoint, 1635. 96x86 mm; 33/4x33/8 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (e) (of 4); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Ex-collection J.C.D. Hebich (Lugt 1250, verso) and Kupferstichkabinett, Stuttgart (Lugt 2323, verso). A brilliant, early impression, with strong touches of burr on the black spot above the shoe and on the sash to the right of the Saint's head and with the fine vertical scratches in the white spaces above the slipper and the diagonal rays upper right sharp and clear. Bartsch 97; Biörklund 35-A; Hollstein (White and Boon) 97.