Old Master Prints

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The Property of a Gentleman

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Self-Portrait, Frowning: Bust

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Lot Details

Description

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

1606 - 1669

Self-Portrait, Frowning: Bust


etching on fine laid paper presumably with a fragment of a Serpent watermark (cf. Hinterding A)

1630

a very good impression of this scarce portrait, New Hollstein's third (final state), still printing with traces of the horizontal lines towards the upper edge

plate: 74 by 60 mm. 3 by 2⅜ in.

sheet: 85 by 72 mm. 3⅜ by 2⅞ in.

Ex coll. Országos Képtár, Print Cabinet Budapest (L. 2000)

A. Artaria, Vienna (L. 33)

G. Björklund (L. 1138c)

With an unidentified collector's stamp 'De Elisoher' (not in Lugt)

Vincent Price (his collection labels verso of frame)

Bartsch, Hollstein 10; New Hollstein 68