Details
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
A Man at a Desk wearing a Cross and Chain (B., Holl. 261; H. 189; BB. 41-L)
etching with drypoint, 1641, third state (of four), a very fine, rich impression of this state, carefully printed to capture successively the delicate lines of the face and hair, showing burr on the sitters left sleeve, with margins, a tiny touched-in spot on the forehead, a minute hole above the date, the Gersaint number in pen and ink at the upper right margin corner, two or three small thin spots and residual glue stains at the reverse sheet edges
P. 154 x 103 mm.
A Man at a Desk wearing a Cross and Chain (B., Holl. 261; H. 189; BB. 41-L)
etching with drypoint, 1641, third state (of four), a very fine, rich impression of this state, carefully printed to capture successively the delicate lines of the face and hair, showing burr on the sitters left sleeve, with margins, a tiny touched-in spot on the forehead, a minute hole above the date, the Gersaint number in pen and ink at the upper right margin corner, two or three small thin spots and residual glue stains at the reverse sheet edges
P. 154 x 103 mm.
Provenance
Sir E. Astley (L. 2775)