Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN and JAN VAN VLIET
The Beheading of John the Baptist.

Etching, circa 1627. 158x125 mm; 6 1/4x5 inches, thread margins. Usticke's fourth state (of 4); White and Boon's fifth state (of 5). A very good, 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.