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Self Portrait in a Slant Fur Cap: Bust

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669, Dutch)

Etching

Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)  Self Portrait in a Slant Fur Cap: Bust, ca. 1631  Etching and Engraving

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Self Portrait in a Slant Fur Cap: Bust

Description

Date: 1631 
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 64 x 57 mm 2 9/16 x 2 5/16 
References: Hollstein 14 first state of three, with the failure in biting on the right cheek
Signature: Signed in plate
Provenance: Hermann Weber (1817-1854, Bonn) probably sold 28 April 1856 in Leipzig by R. Wiegel (Lugt 1383); Wilhelm Koller ( -1871) Vienna, probably sold 5 February 1872 and following days Vienna, by A. Posonyi (Lugt 2632); Henry Foster Sewall (1816-1896, New York) (Lugt 1309); Private collection, U.S.A.; 2020 to David Tunick, Inc., New York, New York
Impression: Fine
Condition: Very good, cut to and just within the platemark, some rubbing in the top left and bottom left, a very short tear just coming into the blank area top right