Lot 26
  • 26

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Self-Portrait (?) with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre (B., Holl. 23; New Holl. 135; H. 110)
  • etching
  • sheet: 130 by 106mm 5 1/8 by 4 1/4 in
Etching and engraving, 1634, a fine impression of the third (final) state, framed

Provenance

Ex coll. Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (L. 2529); an unidentified collector's paraphe (not in Lugt); an unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt); a duplicate from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett (L. 1606 and 2398)

Condition

Trimmed just inside the platemark, slightly into the image at bottom, a few fox marks in the background, thin areas in the background, with a short associated tear (circa 15mm) at right and a small reinforced area at left, a soft vertical central fold only visible verso, framed.
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