Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
(Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Self-Portrait wearing a cap, full face, head only, c. 1634, etching on laid paper, 4,9 x 4,4 cm, trimmed along platemarks and with tiny margins at left and lower and left margins, laid down on support, Bartsch 2, White-Boon, Usticke 2 I-II, New Hollstein 133, mounted, framed,(Sch)
Provenance:
Private collection, Germany.
Very excellent, even and vigorous impression of this utmost rare etching. According to Usticke “A rare and famous small self portrait (RRR)”. In an excellent condition.
The present etching may represent Rembrandt in 1634, the year when he married Saskia, whereas Seitdlitz dated the print somewhat earlier to 1631, when Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. The sheet titled “Rembrandt aux troix moustaches” by Bartsch and mentioned by Nowell-Usticke as (RRR) “extremely rare” counts without any doubt to the rarest self-portraits of the artist. In the last two decades only six further copies were offered on the art market.
Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
06.11.2019 - 14:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 20,300.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 16,000.- to EUR 20,000.-
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
(Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Self-Portrait wearing a cap, full face, head only, c. 1634, etching on laid paper, 4,9 x 4,4 cm, trimmed along platemarks and with tiny margins at left and lower and left margins, laid down on support, Bartsch 2, White-Boon, Usticke 2 I-II, New Hollstein 133, mounted, framed,(Sch)
Provenance:
Private collection, Germany.
Very excellent, even and vigorous impression of this utmost rare etching. According to Usticke “A rare and famous small self portrait (RRR)”. In an excellent condition.
The present etching may represent Rembrandt in 1634, the year when he married Saskia, whereas Seitdlitz dated the print somewhat earlier to 1631, when Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. The sheet titled “Rembrandt aux troix moustaches” by Bartsch and mentioned by Nowell-Usticke as (RRR) “extremely rare” counts without any doubt to the rarest self-portraits of the artist. In the last two decades only six further copies were offered on the art market.
Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 06.11.2019 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 31.10. - 06.11.2019 |
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