ID 1071814
Lot 16 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
David in Prayer
etching and drypoint
1652
on laid paper, without watermark
a very fine impression of the first state (of three)
printing strongly, with great clarity and intense contrasts
with touches of burr on the bedcover
with thread margins, trimmed on the platemark in places
in very good condition
Plate 142 x 94 mm.
Sheet 143 x 95 mm.
Provenance
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (their stocknumber C 26925 - crossed out - and C 27765 in pencil verso).
Mabel H. Perkins (1880-1974), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Art Collector (without mark and not in Lugt); bequeathed to the Mabel H. Perkins Foundation; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1981, lot 822 ($ 16,500; to Rumbler).
With Kunsthandel Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main.
Sam Josefowitz; acquired from the above in 1984; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 41; Hind 258; New Hollstein 268 (this impression cited)
Stogdon 9
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Applied technique: | Drypoint |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Artist: | Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) |
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| Applied technique: | Drypoint |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
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