Lot 13
  • 13

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Self Portrait Drawing at a Window (B., Holl. 22; New Holl. 240; H. 229)
  • Etching on paper
  • plate: 155 by 129mm 6 1/8 by 5 1/8 in
  • sheet: 157 by 133mm 6 1/4 by 5 1/2 in
Etching with drypoint and burin, 1648, the fourth state (of five), New Hollstein's fourth state (of nine), with touches of burr on the artist's right shoulder, on paper with a partial Strasbourg Lily watermark, framed

Provenance

Ex. coll Pierre Mariette II (L. 1789); Nicholas Mossoloff (L. 1802); with Harlow, McDonald & Co., New York (their stock number 32658 printed on a label on the frame verso)

Condition

With narrow margins, trimmed unevenly along the lower sheet edge, in good condition apart from a tiny paper loss at the tip of the lower left margin (not affecting plate area), residual mounting, framed.
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