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Lot 15
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Self-Portrait, Frowning: Bust (Bartsch, Hollstein 10; New Hollstein 68; Hind 30)
  • etching
  • Plate: 72 by 60mm; 2 7/8 by 2 3/8 in
  • Sheet: 76 by 63mm; 3 by 2½in
Etching, 1630, a good impression of the third (final) state, a rare portrait

Provenance

Ex coll. Charles Delanglade (L. 660)

Condition

With narrow margins, in good condition apart from a very pale fox mark at top centre, a minor defect at lower left corner, a minute tear in lower right margin, unframed.
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