Lot 3
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber
Hammer Price: £2,000
Description
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber
Etching with plate tone, 1642, a detailed and delicate impression of New Hollstein's second state (of three) with curtain at right partly burnished into a concave outline, before any later re-working, on laid paper with partial watermark of a Strasbourg lily crown [probably Hinterding's 'C-i-a', datable to 1642], sheet 150 x 170 mm. (5 7/8 x 6 3/4 in), trimmed on or just within the platemark, minor rubbing and surface dirt, unframed.
Literature:
Hind 201; New Hollstein ii/iii
Description
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber
Etching with plate tone, 1642, a detailed and delicate impression of New Hollstein's second state (of three) with curtain at right partly burnished into a concave outline, before any later re-working, on laid paper with partial watermark of a Strasbourg lily crown [probably Hinterding's 'C-i-a', datable to 1642], sheet 150 x 170 mm. (5 7/8 x 6 3/4 in), trimmed on or just within the platemark, minor rubbing and surface dirt, unframed.
Literature:
Hind 201; New Hollstein ii/iii