REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN | The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three Quarter Length (B., Holl. 343; New Holl. 91; H. 52)

Etching, circa 1631, a very good impression of New Hollstein's second state (of three), though showing a few touches of slight wear mainly in the foreground, on paper with a Foolscap with Five-Pointed Collar watermark (Hinterding A.a.)

With an unidentified collector's stamp verso (not in Lugt)

With narrow margins on three sides (a thread margin at left), in good condition apart from a repaired area in the blank section above the sitter's head, a small skillfully repaired tear at upper right (measuring approx. 14mm), a small pale stain in lower right corner, the verso with residual mounting at lower right and associated small area of paper thinning, unframed. (A horizontal printer's crease in the blank area above the sitter's head).
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