Auction 320: Prints | 17 November 2023
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

The first Oriental Head

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Lot 313
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669
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Etching and drypoint on laid paper. (1635). 15.4 x 12.7 cm (sheet size).

Result: € 19,050*

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Details

Bartsch 286; White/Boon 286 II (from II); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 149 II (from V).

Description

Excellent early print of the II State, with the added landscape in the background on the right – the only copy of the I State is housed in London. With a narrow paper margin around the edge of the plate, cut to the same length on the upper edge. Early prints are rare and marked “R+” by Nowell-Usticke. – With some small, isolated foxmarks, mainly on the reverse and with remnants of earlier mounting. Unobtrusive annotations on the reverse, otherwise a very fine impression.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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