Apr 27, 2010 - Sale 2212

Sale 2212 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Virgin and Child with the Cat and Snake.

Etching, 1654. 96x146 mm; 3 3/4x5 3/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2); Usticke's first or second state (of 4), with the white spaces along the upper plate mark partially filled in and with crisp, inky plate edges; White and Boon's second state (of 2). Partial bell watermark. A superb, early impression with strong contrasts on thin, cream laid 17th-century paper. Bartsch 63; Biörklund 54-C; Hollstein (White and Boon) 63.