Lot 72
  • 72

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple (B., Holl. 94; New Holl. 312; H. 301)
  • Etching
  • sheet: 182 by 220mm 7 1/8 by 8 1/2 in
Etching with drypoint and engraving, 1659, a good impression of New Hollstein's fifth state (of six), still printing with depth, contrast and touches of burr, on paper with an indiscernible watermark

Provenance

With an unidentified collector's mark (L. 2763)

Condition

Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark, in good condition apart from a tiny loss at the lower left tip of the sheet, unframed. (Two printer's creases in the upper part of the image and one in the lower part of the image).
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