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Lot 28
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Canal with an Angler and Two Swans (B., Holl. 235; H. 238; BB. 50-A),
  • Etching with drypoint
  • Sheet: 81 by 109mm; 3¼ by 4¼in
Etching and drypoint, 1650, second (final) state, a very good, clear impression of this rare subject, with touches of burr in the reflection of the reeds

Provenance

Ex coll. Atherton Curtis (L. 94); François Debois (L. 985); Viscount Downe, his sale, Sotheby's London, 7 December 1972, lot 183 (£1,700)

Condition

With thread margins at right and below, trimmed to or on the platemark elsewhere, the extreme tip of the lower left corner made up, a collector's mark found verso showing through slightly recto at lower left, some thin, rubbed areas at upper corners, unframed.
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