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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 7
07.12.2023 19:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1071803
Lot 7 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Self-Portrait with Saskia

etching

1636

on laid paper, without watermark

a brilliant impression of the first state (of four)

printing sharply and with great contrasts

with fine vertical wiping marks, pronounced plate impurities and a subtle plate tone

with margins

in very good condition

Plate 104 x 94 mm.

Sheet 115 x 103 mm.





Provenance

Johann Andreas Boerner (1785-1862), Nuremberg (Lugt 270, dated 1820 and with his code Z. V. Vz in brown ink verso); his posthumous sale, R. Weigel, Leipzig, 22 January 1863 (and following days), lot 852 ('Schöner Abdruck, die Platte schmutzig') (Rh. 5.1; to Boerner).

With C. G. Boerner, Leipzig.

Carl Schlösser (1827-1884), Elberfeld (Lugt 636); his sale, F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt, 7 June 1880 (and following days), lot 474 ('Épreuve de toute beauté du premier état avant les retouches au burin (...) Extrêmement rare de cette beauté. Avec des marges de 5mm. Coll J. A. Boerner') (Mk. 671; to Hagens).

Franz von Hagens (1817-1899), Dresden (Lugt 1052a); his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2-3 May 1927, lot 458 ('Brillanter des seltenen ersten Zustandes, mit den Häkchen auf der Stirn der Saskia. [...] Aus den Sammlungen J. A. Boerner und Schlösser') (Mk. 2,200; to Strölin).

With Alfred Strölin Sr. (1871-1954), Paris (without mark and not in Lugt).

With Kennedy Galleries, New York (their stocknumber a 14847 in pencil verso).

With David Tunick, New York (his code DTMMKMLKH in pencil verso).

With August Laube, Zurich (his stocknumber 35028 in pencil verso).

Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above in 1978; then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein 19; Hind 144; New Hollstein 158 (this impression cited)

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