Lot 102
  • 102

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • The Blind Fiddler (B., Holl. 138; New Holl. 77; H. 38)
  • etching
  • sheet: 77 by 53mm 3 by 2 1/8 in
Etching, 1631, a very fine impression of the third (final) state, New Hollstein's ninth (final) state

Provenance

Ex coll. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (L. 119); Albert Aaron Feldmann (L. 4812) 

Condition

Trimmed unevenly on or just within the plate mark, in good condition apart from a few inconspicuous fox marks, a few tiny pinholes in the lower part of the subject, a few dots of blueish ink(?) in the unprinted area near the subject's head, unframed.
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