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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Lot 64
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ID 1308647
Lot 64 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Petrus Sylvius?)
etching
1637
on laid paper, watermark fragment Strasbourg Lily (Hinterding C.f.b.)
a very fine impression of the second, final state
printing with great clarity, contrasts and much inky relief
with touches of burr on the chin, hair and elsewhere, and a subtle plate tone
with exceptionally wide margins
in very good condtion
Plate 96 x 83 mm.
Sheet 170 x 136 mm.




Provenance

Unidentified, inscribed 'Petrús Silviús' in brown ink verso, presumably 17th century.
Daniel Daulby (1745 or 1746-1798), Liverpool and Rydal Mount (Lugt 738); his sale, T. Vernon, Liverpool, 12-21 August 1799, 8th day, lot 64 (with an impression of NH 156; inscribed in brown ink verso with the Daulby numbers of both subjects: No. 248/249).
Probably William Roscoe (1753-1831), Liverpool (without mark; see Lugt 2645; inscribed -1/Ap 48 [?] in red crayon verso); his sale, Winstanley, Liverpool, 9-20 September 1816, lot 1008 (with two others) (£ 1; to Hatfield).
Thomas Miller Whitehead (1821-1897?), London (Lugt 2449, dated 1853).
Emile Galichon (1829-1875), Paris (Lugt 1058); his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot (exp. Clément), 10-14 May 1875, lot 563 ('Magnifique épreuve du premier état, avec des parties claires dans les cheveux. Elle a de grandes marges.') (Fr. 200; to Galichon).
Louis Galichon (1829-1893), Paris (Lugt 1060).
Atherton Curtis (1863-1943) & Louise Burleigh Curtis (1869-1910), Paris (Lugt 94); probably acquired privately from the above; their posthumous sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 28 April 1955, lot 116 (CHF 1,100).
Private Collection, Argentina; acquired at the above sale.
With C. G. Boerner, Leipzig (with their stocknumber 9078 in pencil verso); acquired from the above; their catalogue, Neue Lagerliste 62 (1973), no. 40.
Jan A. Ahlers (1934-2013), Herford, Westphalia (without mark and not in Lugt); acquired from the above; his sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2 June 1977, lot 143 (to Boerner).
With C. G. Boerner, Leipzig (with their stocknumber 9803 in pencil verso).
Private Collection, USA; Christie's, London, 28 November 1989, lot 101a (£ 52,800; to Boerner for Ritman).
Joseph R. Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam (not in Lugt); acquired at the above sale; his sale, A Collection of Etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), presented by Artemis Fine Arts and Sotheby's, London, no. 102 ($ 150,000).
Dr. S. William Pelletier (1924-2004), Athens, Georgia (Lugt 4193, stamped and inscribed in pencil with his date of acquisition: 2002 2-12.1); acquired from Artemis; his posthumous sale, The Dr. S. William Pelletier Collection of Prints, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 2004, lot 56.
Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094); acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein 268; Hind 151; New Hollstein 164 (this impression cited and described)
Stogdon 110
D. de Hoop Scheffer, Petrus Sylvius par Rembrandt, in: Liber amicorum Karel G. Boon, Amsterdam, 1974, p. 96-101.
E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 2008, p. 470.



Exhibited

S. D. Kuretsky, A. W. Pelletier (et al.), Etchings by Rembrandt from the S. William Pelletier Collection, Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2004, no. 17.
Artist:Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
Applied technique:Drypoint, Etching
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Portrait
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