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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 1/4 x 5 1/4"), trimmed along the plate mark, 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. Illustrated in Hinterding, Luijten & Royalton-Kisch: Rembrandt the Printmaker, no. 27ii (they also illustrate a previously undescribed trial proof before the first state, in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris).
Provenance: Ambroise Firmin Didot (Lugt 119), Louis Galichon (L. 1060), Charles Delanglade (L. 660), Hermann Weber (L. 1383), and Jules Gerbeau (L. 1165).
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