Lot 15
  • 15

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • The Flight into Egypt: Small Plate (B., Holl 52; New Holl. 117; H. 105)
  • Etching
  • sheet: 89 by 62mm 3 1/2 by 2 3/8 in
Etching, 1633, the first state (of two), a fair impression of New Hollstein's second state (of four)

Provenance

With an unidentified, indecipherable collector's mark (not in Lugt)

Condition

Trimmed to the platemark, in good condition apart from a few pale fox marks in the upper sheet area, residual mounting paper verso, and pale discoloration verso, hinged to the mount at two places along the left sheet edge verso, unframed.
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