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Lot 27
  • 27

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • The Artist's Mother in a Cloth Headdress, Looking Down: Head Only (B., Holl. 351; New Holl. 121; H. 107)
  • etching
  • Plate: 42 by 40mm; 1 5/8 by 1 5/8 in
  • Sheet: 47 by 45mm; 1 7/8 by 1¾in
Etching, 1633, a good, delicate impression of this rare print, second (final) state, New Hollstein's second state (of three)

Condition

With narrow margins, in good condition apart from traces of grey wash along the lower platemark, another tiny spot on her right eyelid, to the right of her left eye and in the left margin, unframed.
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