REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN | SELF-PORTRAIT LEANING ON A STONE SILL (B., HOLL. 21; NEW HOLL. 171; H. 168)

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
1606 - 1669
SELF-PORTRAIT LEANING ON A STONE SILL (B., HOLL. 21; NEW HOLL. 171; H. 168)

Etching with touches of drypoint, 1639, a fine, silvery impression of New Hollstein's second (final) state before the wear in the eyes, unframed
sheet: 202 by 163mm 7⅞ by 6½in

Condition Report:
With thread margins below and at right, trimmed on or fractionally within the plate mark at left and a few millimetres within the unprinted area of the subject at the upper sheet edge, in good condition apart from pale, uneven discoloration and a few fox marks (mainly verso), a couple of nicks in the left sheet edge, unframed.

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Provenance:
Ex coll. Alcide Donnadieu (L. 726); Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq, dit Des Tournelles (L. 1336); Fürst Karl de Paar, Prince of Paar (L. 2009)