Lot 52
  • 52

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table Looking Right (B., Holl. 343; New Holl. 91; H. 52)
  • etching
  • sheet: 149 by 131mm 5 7/8 by 5 1/8 in
Etching, circa 1631, a fine, rich impression of the second (final) state, New Hollstein's second (final) state, framed

Condition

With a thread margin above and below, otherwise with a thread margin or trimmed on the platemark, trimmed marginally into the subject in the lower part of the left edge, a tiny loss of the extreme tip of the upper right sheet corner, some soft creasing in the upper section of the sheet, residual mounting at the left sheet edge verso, framed.
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