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

Jan Uytenbogaert, the Goldweigher

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Auction 320
Lot 319N
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669
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Etching and drypoint on Japanese laid paper. (1639). 28.2 x 23.3 cm (sheet size).

Result: € 40,640*

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Details

Bartsch 281; White/Boon 281 II (from II); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 172 II (from III).

Description

Exceptionally fine and strong lifetime print on Japanese laid paper, with strong drypoint burr and printed before Captain Baillie’s posthumous revision of the plate. With a border up to 18 mm wide around the clearly visible edge of the plate. Jan Uytenbogaert, tax collector of the States of Holland in Amsterdam, was nicknamed “The Goldweigher” because of his office. This etching was probably a commissioned work, as the copper plate became the property of the Uytenbogaert family. The plate is mentioned in the inventory of his grandson, Jakob Geel, who died in 1757. It later became the property of William Baillie, who revised it and included prints in his 1792 publication. Jan Uytenbogaert, the gold weigher, was a distant cousin of Jan Uytenbogaert, the Remonstrant preacher, whom Rembrandt portrayed in 1635 (cf. NHD, No. 153). – There is a carefully closed tear in the lower edge in the middle, otherwise very well preserved. Extremely rare in this quality!

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Prints

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