REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Self Portrait Frowning: Bust.

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Self Portrait Frowning: Bust.

Etching, 1630. 72x60 mm; 2⅞x2⅜ inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's second state (of 2), an early impression in this state, with the two parallel horizontal lines in the top part of the hair and above the head only partially burnished and still distinct, though broken; White and Boon's third state (of 3); New Hollstein's third state (of 3). A very good, dark, evenly-printed and well-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching, with strong contrasts and all the fine, delicate lines distinct.

According to Usticke, "A very scarce portrait, rarely fine (RR-)."

We have found only 15 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 10; Biörklund 30-M; Hollstein (White and Boon) 10.