• Old Master Prints auction at Christies

    Sale 7781

    Old Master Prints

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    8 December 2009

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    Lot 72

    Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

    A Peasant in a high Cap, standing leaning on a Stick (B., Holl. 133; H. 164)

    Price realised

    GBP 3,000

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
    A Peasant in a high Cap, standing leaning on a Stick (B., Holl. 133; H. 164)
    etching, 1639, with a partial watermark (letter 'D'), a good impression, with thread margins on three sides, trimmed just into the platemark above, a short tear at the upper left corner, laid down at three corners on the reverse, minor rippling to the sheet, otherwise in good condition, framed
    P., S. 83 x 46 mm.

    Provenance

    With an unidentified paraph in brown ink verso (not in Lugt).

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