May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban ?).

Etching, 1641. 145x115 mm; 5 3/4x4 1/2 inches, thread margins. Biörklund's first state (of 2); Usticke's first state (of 2); White and Boon's first state (of 2). Foolscap with a 7-pointed collar watermark. A superb, dark impression with strong contrasts and characteristics of the earliest impressions of this print, including the many fine vertical wiping scratches in the upper right and no sign of wear in the shaded area beneath the arch in the door. Bartsch 118; Biörklund 41-F; Hollstein (White and Boon) 118.