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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Jan Uytenbogaert,The Goldweigher
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Etching and drypoint, 1639. 253x204 mm; 10x8 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund’s
fourth state (of 4); Usticke’s second state (of 3);White and Boon’s second state (of 2); New
Hollstein second state (of 3), before the Captain Baillie rework. Proprietary (?) watermark.
A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression with no sign of wear and with burr on
Uytenbogaert’s garment and elsewhere.
Uytenbogaert (1608-1680) was likely a long-standing acquaintance of Rembrandt’s. He
was the Dutch national tax collector and a patron of the arts, whose country estate just
outside Amsterdam was a sort of salon and focal point for local artists and poets. Bartsch
281; Biörklund 39-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 281.
[30,000/50,000]