Swann Galleries - Old Master Prints - Sale 2429: Part I, November 3, 2016

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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Christ at Emmaus:The Larger Plate

Etching and drypoint, 1654. 212x162 mm; 8

inches, narrow to thread margins.

Biörklund’s third state (of 3); Usticke’s third state (i) (of 4);White and Boon’s third state

(of 3). Ex-collection Vicomte Philogène de Montfort (Lugt 1035, verso). A superb, dark

and richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts and with traces of burr, comparable

to some earlier impressions. Bartsch 87; Biörklund 54-H; Hollstein (White and Boon) 87.

[5,000/8,000]