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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669)
Fourth Oriental Head (Bust of a young man in a velvet beret). ca. 1635.
White & Boon 289ii (of iii); Nowell-Usticke 289i (of iii) - “R+, A scarce and desirable portrait”. Etching, 159 x 135 mm (6 ¼ x 5 ¼”), trimmed along the platemark, on paper with a partial Fool’s cap with five-pointed collar watermark (see Ash & Fletcher Ib., seen on early impressions of various Rembrandt etchings dating from 1632 to 1653). A fine, rich impression of this extremely rare portrait, in very good condition.
Provenance: Ambroise Firmin Didot (Lugt 119), Louis Galichon (L. 1060), Charles Delanglade (L. 660), Hermann Weber (L. 1383) and Jules Gerbeau (L. 1165).