Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Old Man Shading his Eyes with his Hand
Details
Bartsch 259; White/Boon 259; Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 175 I (von III).
Provenienz:
Sammlung Heinrich Brockhaus (1804-1874), Leipzig, seitdem in Familienbesitz.
Description
Quite an excellent, finely drawn early impression, the sketchy background delicately and finely printed. Before the revisions by Georg Friedrich Schmidt. With a small margin up to approx. 4 mm wide around the platemark. – An 8 mm tear at the lower left edge. A brown stain in the upper right. The upper and lower right corners thinned and with remnants of former mounting verso, otherwise in good condition.
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