Lot Essay
This is a fine and very atmospheric impression, with unusual, pronounced streaks of wiped tone above the sitter's hat toward the upper plate edge.
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Old Man with a divided Fur Cap
Details
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Old Man with a divided Fur Cap
etching with drypoint, 1640, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine impression of the first state (of two), printing with much burr on the hand and along the lower borderlines, with a lightly wiped plate tone and fine wiping marks, with narrow margins, some tiny repairs at the lower left sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed
Plate 150 x 138 mm., Sheet 155 x 141 mm.
Old Man with a divided Fur Cap
etching with drypoint, 1640, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine impression of the first state (of two), printing with much burr on the hand and along the lower borderlines, with a lightly wiped plate tone and fine wiping marks, with narrow margins, some tiny repairs at the lower left sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed
Plate 150 x 138 mm., Sheet 155 x 141 mm.
Provenance
Unidentified, a purple stamp and another, probably a duplicate or de-accession stamp, above (not in Lugt).
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 265; Hind 170; New Hollstein 182
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