ID 587671
Lot 146 | REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician
etching with drypoint and engraving, 1647, on laid paper, watermark Basilisk (Hinterding A-a-a), a very fine, rich and velvety impression of New Hollstein's second, final state, printing with considerable burr on the cloak and banister and a light plate tone, trimmed to or on the platemark on three sides, with the blank border and a narrow margin below, in very good condition
Plate 240 x 177 mm., Sheet 242 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Private European Collection (according to the gallery label verso).
With Pace Editions, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 278; Hind 226; New Hollstein 237
Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher - A Study of the Artist at Work, London, 1969, p. 128-9.
Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, 2008, no. 206, p. 498-501 (another impression illustrated).
Nicholas Stogdon, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings by Rembrandt in a Private Collection, Switzerland, privately printed , 2011, no. 125, p. 218-9 (another impression illustrated).
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