Lot 34
  • 34

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Sheet of Studies: Head of the Artist, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc. (B., Holl. 363; New Holl. 115; H. 90)
  • etching
  • plate: 100 by 105mm 3 7/8 by 4 1/8 in
  • sheet: 102 by 108mm 4 by 4 1/4 in
Etching, circa 1632, a very good impression of this rare subject, the second (final) state, New Hollstein's second (final) state, printing with plate tone, on paper with part of an Arms of Amsterdam watermark 

Provenance

Ex coll. Graphische Sammlung der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (L. 2066a; 711b in duplicate) 

Condition

With thread margins, in good condition, the extreme lower left sheet edge creased up and supported by the hinge verso, a few very small fox marks at center of upper sheet edge, unframed.
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