ID 1071767
Lot 34 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
View of Amsterdam from the Kadijk
etching
circa 1641
on firm laid paper, watermark fragment Basilisk (Hinterding A'.a.a)
a very fine impression
printing very strongly, with intense contrasts in the foreground, and remarkable clarity and depth
with great presence even in the finest details in the background
with thread margins
in very good condition
Plate 112 x 153 mm.
Sheet 114 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Lugt 1943), with their duplicate stamp (Lugt 1808h), inscribed 20⁄46/9 in pencil and initialled by William M. Ivins Jr. (Curator of the Prints Department) in blue ballpoint pen verso.
With Knoedler & Co., New York (with their stocknumber MK35136 in pencil verso).
Dr Friedrich Andreas Lieberg (1898 - after 1965), Kassel, Milan, Buenos Aires (Lugt 1681ter); presumably acquired from the above; his posthumous sale, 140 Radierungen von Rembrandt der Jahre 1629 bis 1665, Kornfeld, Bern, 21 June 1979, lot 83 (CHF 69,000; to Laube for Josefowitz).
Sam Josefowitz; acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 210; Hind 176; New Hollstein 203 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 91
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
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