Apr 27, 2010 - Sale 2212

Sale 2212 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN and JAN VAN VLIET

The Beheading of John the Baptist.

Etching, circa 1627. 158x125 mm; 6 1/4x5 inches, narrow margins. Usticke's first state (of 4); White and Boon's first state (of 5). Indiscernible (2 letters ?) watermark. A superb, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.

According to White and Boon, a plate by Rembrandt reworked by Van Vliet, Rembrandt's student, who was active in Leiden from around 1628 to 1637. Bartsch 93.