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    Sale 8708

    Prints by Rembrandt from the Collection of Walter F. Johnson

    New York, Park Avenue

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    13 May 1997

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    Lot 66

    REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN

    Landscape with a Square Tower (B., Holl. 218; H. 245; BB. 50-C)

    Price realised

    USD 68,500

    Estimate

    USD 50,000 - USD 70,000

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    REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
    Landscape with a Square Tower (B., Holl. 218; H. 245; BB. 50-C)
    etching and drypoint, 1650, on fine laid paper, without watermark, third state (of four), a very fine impression, with rich burr, printed with considerable atmospheric tone with particular effect in the foreground and displaying a profusion of vertical wiping scratches in the sky, trimmed to the slightly arched shaped platemark and very skillfully re-margined, otherwise in very good condition
    P. 3½ x 6¼in. (87 x 157mm.)

    Provenance

    C.F.J. Libert de Beaumont 1784 (L. 1679)
    Kupferstichkabinett des Hessischen Landesmuseums (L. 1257e)
    Dr. Otto Schäfer, his stamp verso (not in Lugt)

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