Portrait of an officer (B. 11; Holl. 12)

Details

Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680)
Portrait of an officer (B. 11; Holl. 12)
etching with touches of drypoint, 1645, partial watermark Fool's Cap, a very fine, early impression of this rare print, with touches of burr on the shirt cuff and elsewhere, printing with great contrast and delicacy, with 6-8 mm. margins, the tip of the upper left corner in the margins made-up, otherwise in very good condition
P. 137 x 113 mm., S. 152 x 127 mm.

Provenance

Paul Davidsohn (1839-1931), Berlin (L. 654); his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 3-8 May 1920, lot 692: 'Wundervoller Abdruck eines unbeschriebenen ersten Zustandes, vor neuen Schraffuren rechts und links am Kopf. Mit Rändchen. Von größter Seltenheit' (RM 1.600 to Gutekunst).
Richard Gutekunst (1870-?), Bern (cf. L. 2213a, without his mark).
Mary Lovejoy Kirkpatrick (1884-1976), Massachusetts and Maine (not in Lugt).
With Goodman Walker Fine Arts, Boston (according to a label on the mount).

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Lot Essay

In Boerner's catalogue of the Davidsohn sale of 1920, the present impression was described as 'a wonderful impression of an undescribed first state, before additional hatching to the right and left of the head'. Based on this description, it was subsequently recorded in Hollstein as the only known impression of the first state of two. A direct comparison with a fine impression of the so-called second state in the British Museum however revealed no difference. It seems that Boerner was mistaken and that there is in fact only one state of this etching.

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